"Karl Anders" <kar### [at] webde> wrote:
> "alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> > oh man a blank page, somebody stop me!
>
> I don't think so, go on, looks good!
> And thus begins the infamous war between Earth and the Romulan Empire!
> ..... or maybe not, the purists might argue if this kind of ship was already
> around during THAT war - I don't care, nice picture. The ship is a bit dark,
> maybe...
>
> By the way: Thanks for the POV-Ray-readable star catalogue over in "ping pong";
> I was just starting to write my own conversion tool for one of the downloadable
> catalogues because I wanted to make some birthday presents for my friends
> incorporating their zodiac-signs and got a into a bit of trouble - and POOF
> there came the alphaQuadrant and posted most of the imported data - thank you
> again!
>
> I hope I can make good use of that. If so, the results shall soon be posted!
>
> Greetings
> Karl

Excellent, be a critic. With interest I might do something like this.
About 4 weeks to work it out, close as I can figure the solar sytem to be:

To do:
Map Uranus rings/find pictures to go from


(My attempts failed, need someone with more experience)

Features:

10 planets, 160 Satellites
220 Messier and Selected objects
FlamBayer Cat 3133 Stars, parsecs
View stars and system targets by name

OrbitCam
Glow/flare stars
Spiral galaxies
Milkyway
Warbird
Labels
Etc.

Maps required. See Readme
At my site then I can update if there are issues. (Let me know)
http://home.earthlink.net/~gamma-quadrant/planetarium4.zip
201003 (unless updated)

OpenGl @ 70fps
http://home.earthlink.net/~gamma-quadrant/iss-shot2.jpg
(I should figure out why 3ds2pov is failing on my ISS model)

As for the catalog data, I just write a script in about 10 minutes and convert
presto. Easy.

Closer look at Warbird:
glad to help out,
aQ

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