Pascal,
The new stars databases are great! They add a lot to the visual impact and provide more things for us to explore. Thanks, a lot!
For example, I had fun looking and staring and twirling it around, investigating the way the stars defined the galactic plane, how some clusters were organized, etc.
However, I think I see some hints of non-physical structure in both 2.0A and 2.0C. It's actually easier to see in A. Some of it seems to be "systematic errors" -- I think I see a hint of an arc of a few bright stars centered on the Sun's position.
There also seem to be several spokes radiating from the sun in the direction of the arc. I can imagine several possible causes -- systematics in the observing program (studying some areas more than others), errors in assignment of RA and Dec, or even dark nebulae blocking (other) parts of the view.
At any rate, below I've provides a viewpoint taken from favorites.cel that seems to make some of the spokes more easily visible in 2.0A using Celestia v125pre3. One spoke points up toward about 12:00 and another toward 10:00. The sun is roughly in the center of the screen. Rotating the "sun" back and forth a little (with the right mouse button) makes the arc a little easier to see as the relevant stars move back and forth together.
"spokes" {
isFolder false
parentFolder ""
base [ -9560.51608016755 8635.427028550232 -1641.979748980645 ]
offset [ -8.851289749145508e-006 3.421157671393282e-013 2.870250153004517e-013 ]
axis [ 0.871896 0.299327 -0.387558 ]
angle 1.88479
time 2452539.473444656
selection "#0"
coordsys "ecliptical"
}
Thanks again.
Hello Celestia users !
