Maps of teh FT universe

> At 13:07 06/07/98 -0700, you wrote:

Its not an "official" map but its the nearest thing to it that I've seen.

http://www.netspace.net.au/~sneakin/expansion/expansion.html

Its also the home of a very interesting FT campaign.

Are there any maps of the FT universe?

> http://www.netspace.net.au/~sneakin/expansion/expansion.html

Whose page is this? How did he or she make the map? Do they have the datafile
of stars they used? What format is it in? Is such a datafile available?

I'm looking to make my own map, and I'm trying to latch hold of accurate X,Y,Z
coords (relative to earth) for the near (say 50ly) stars in Earth orbit,
corrected to 2285 or 2300 for the sake of rough numbers. And maybe type and
magnitude and mass data if it was available. Then I can fire up my old
traveller world generation software (or the paper and pen version!) to
generate the planets in those systems. And then campaigning becomes
interesting....

I won't plague the list, but if the creator of the map wants to mail me
personally, I'd be very interesting in getting access to the data.

Tom.

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> On 5 Aug 98 at 20:39, Thomas Barclay wrote:

> > http://www.netspace.net.au/~sneakin/expansion/expansion.html

I would really really recommend that you have a look here:

http://www.clark.net/pub/nyrath/starmap.html

It's a veritable cornocopia of relevant information.
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> I'm looking to make my own map, and I'm trying to latch hold of

There's an astronomy program called Gliese which has all the information you
need, but it's quite difficult to get a good output (or at least I'm going to
have to ask for help from someone who knows it alot better than
myself). Unfortunately, I don't have the url saved. :-(

It's on most of the major search engines, however.

> Sean Bayan Schoonmaker wrote:

Here's a good start:

http://www.clark.net/pub/nyrath/starmap.html

I believe it has Gliese on there, as well as links to a whole lot more neat
stuff, including my favorite starmap program, chview:

http://members.fcac.org/~sol/chview/

There may be cooler ones out there now, but that was the best of the
best back in good old '97.  ;-)

Tom

> Tom Pope wrote: