Hi all!

I want to make a short demo for my astronomy class that shows how 
constellations distort as you move through space. (i.e. Orion only looks 
like Orion from Earth's neighborhood) I also want to demo other things 
like precession etc. Stuff you can get in planetaria software packages. 
I want to do this to learn and because I'm cheap.

I did a search and found that someone had already made up an .inc file 
with stars, distances etc. However, the .inc references were from 1999 
and the website no longer exists. The title of the file was XStars.inc. 
Is the original author still around? Does anyone have a copy or is there 
another file someplace that replaces XStars.inc? (Yes... besides being 
cheap... I'm also lazy and don't want to have to reinvent the wheel.) I 
am also aware of several other good .inc files for making "pretty" 
pictures (like Chris Colefax's really great stuff on his site 
<http://www.geocities.com/ccolefax/>) but I am looking for something 
based on actual stars and real distance data. Thanks!

Kathy

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