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Hi!

Can someone make an addon for this odd star system?

I tried to make myself but when i learned it's a binary system i stopped.

Data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholz's_star
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=2MASS J07200325-0846499
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-S?2MASS J07200325-0846499

It is not terribly difficult to make a binary star system. For starters, take a look at the "nearstars.stc" file in the data folder. Just copy the definition for Rigil Kentaurus (alpha cen) and modify the parameters to fit Scholz's Star. Basically you need a barycenter and the 2 stars that orbit it.

If you don't know what all these parameters mean, take a look at the wikibooks: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Celestia/STC_File

Hi everyone,

I made Scholz's star as part of an addon that I might want to release later. Here's the stc code:



Luke

Thanks a lot Luke!