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I'm trying to populate SMC/NGC 292 using your cluster generator.

I'm doing this fairly small scale, 1000 stars over 12000 ly? radius.

# Small Magellanic Cloud / NGC 292
"SMC"
{
Type "Irr"
RA 0.862
Dec -73.23
Distance 210000
Radius 12000
Axis [ 1 0 0 ]
Angle 100
Detail 0.5
}

Cluster generator details:

Label NGC 292

Mag 20 +/-5

# of stars 1000

Dist in LY 210000

HIP # 402500

Radius in LY 12000

(this was the tricky bit for me, being a bit thick on astronomy)

RA 00 08 62.0

Dec -73 23 00.0

R+/- 1.0

D+/- 2.75

d+/- 0.5

Now, it generates the ssc and stc OK, but when I type Say HIP 403877 and press G off I go but arrive at nothing. Also the appMag details differ from the stc to the info that appears Top left.

Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Nothing appears inside the great void which is past 16,000 ly cept galaxies...