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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 17:32:46 UTC Robert McNees

   Our solar neighborhood! The code (Mathematica) for these plots is available here:
   https://github.com/mcnees/Solar-Neighborhood
   There is also a csv file white data for the 1000 nearest stars, so you can make your own visualizations if you don't have access to Mathematica.

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 17:32:38 UTC Robert McNees

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     The 1,000 stars nearest to our Sun.

     The camera circles an axis through our Sun (the yellow dot at the center) and perpendicular to the galactic plane. The whole thing is about 100 light years across.

     Data and (Mathematica) code in this repo:
     https://github.com/mcnees/Solar-Neighborhood

   • gluonspring (gluonspring@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 17:36:31 UTC gluonspring

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     @mcnees
     Future Empire of Earth.

   • Emily S (emily_s@tech.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 15:35:47 UTC Emily S

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     @mcnees oooh I think that list from you is what I used to build https://parsecsreach.org/starviewer/ a long while ago.

   • Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 (nyrath@spacey.space)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 17:24:25 UTC Winchell Chung ⚛🚀

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     @mcnees
     Wow! I wish I could have become a real scientist so I could create marvelous maps like this!

     I make maps for science fiction writers to assist them. I am muddling along with the Hipparcos star catalog,

     Since scifi authors are interested in flight paths for their starships I did auto generation of paths. What worked best was iterating through the list of star systems ( singles, binary, trinary) and creating a path between that system and 2 closest neighbors.
     #StarMaps #AtomicRockets