Re: conskies available!

You don't need to know much about the deep stuff (no astrophysics for instance)
but you do need to be able to plot the output figures on a star chart, in the
same manner that if you're given the latitude and longitude of a place, you can
plot it on a map. Is Cindu the star in your coniverse? There aren't too many
G-type stars within 20 ly of us apart from alpha Centauri, but that's too near.
Altair is about 16 lightyears away, but isn't spectral type G. (Wades through
weighty catalogues...) A good contender would be eta Cassiopeiae, about 18
lightyears distant, spectrum F9, i.e., practically type G. It's also a very
nice double star!
Mike
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roger Mills 
  To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 10:51 PM
  Subject: Re: conskies available!


  Michael Poxon wrote:
 I've been absent a while, but not idle. I've been working on a BASIC program
(now an MS Works spreadsheet) which produces data showing the constellations of
other Solar Systems. The spreadsheet comes ready-loaded with the 1000 brightest
stars visible from Earth, plus others in the close neighbourhood of the Alien
star. The default alien star is Castor in Gemini, but you can pick your own
star. I'm mentioning it here since those of you who have concultures based
around other stars might find it useful. If there's enough interest I'll make
it available. It also comes with basic instructions, though it helps if you
know a little astronomy too.

 Is it something a total illiterate like me could use? Or should I wait for the
"Conskies for Dummies" version? It would be fascinating to know where/what
Cindu's star is (G-0, about 20 light years from Earth [?[) and what their
night-sky would look like.....

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