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Gaia DR2 - Open Star Clusters

Post #1by Gurren Lagann » 28.01.2023, 22:12

Gaia DR2 - Open Star Clusters
200K+ stars in 1400+ star clusters
Stock2.png
The Stock 2 star cluster.

Here we go, slowly implementing Gaia's interesting regions into Celestia! This time, we take a trip to the various open star clusters across the galaxy.
Huge thanks to Sirius_Alpha in programming the stars for the addon! I usually do large datasets myself, but Excel crashed quite a few times to the point i had to ask for help! Haha...

215,327 stars in 1481 star clusters
Data source: https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=J/A A/633/A99
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Post #2by Sirius_Alpha » 29.01.2023, 23:13

Some more screenshots. These were already shared on the Celestia Discord but may as well make them more public for the wider forum audience.

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Double Cluster in Perseus.


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NGC 2168 and NGC 2159 in the background.
Exoplanet nerd. I maintain a monthly-updated exoplanet catalogue here:
https://celestiaproject.space/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=18705
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