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    Are you folks aware of Celestia?
    It's a free 3D astronomy program which includes a database of about 100,000 nearby stars.

    http://www.shatters.net/celestia/


    When your viewpoint is at one star, one of its menus shows the distances to other stars.


    It can draw lines between stars (in 3D), either by (mis)using its constellation file (shown above) or by creating an appropriate model, as I did to show the traderoutes of C.J.Cherryh's Alliance-Union stories.



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    But of course, Zhar2 knows all about Celestia
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    Last edited by selden; 08-05-2009 at 05:19 PM.

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