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might be wrth a look

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 12:16 pm
by Thyristor
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30721794

I wonder how this would be rendered in game

Re: might be wrth a look

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 1:18 pm
by Walter
I don't speak Astronomer. Does anyone know how to identify the stars of the planets recently found by the Kepler space telescope? Because we can now go and check to see if the conclusions drawn from the observations are correct.

Re: might be wrth a look

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:41 pm
by Combiseries
Just spent twenty minutes googling but nothing I get brings up the name and of the stars. Keep looking....

Re: might be wrth a look

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:56 pm
by Kiltrathi
This one?

Kepler-186 is a M1-type dwarf star, located 492 ± 59 light years away in the constellation of Cygnus. It's the star with
planets orbiting it, with one of them in the goldylocks zone.

Re: might be wrth a look

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 4:08 pm
by Walter
Kiltrathi wrote:This one?
Kepler-186 is a M1-type dwarf star, located 492 ± 59 light years away in the constellation of Cygnus. It's the star with
planets orbiting it, with one of them in the goldylocks zone.

That and many others.
I imagine that the Kepler stars appeared in the star catalogue (like the Argos catalogue, but bigger) well before the space telescope was a twinkle in NASA's eye and already had name tags.
I also imagine that this is the catalogue that Frontier uses.
I further imagine that there must be a way to reconcile the old catalogue with the Kepler list of Objects of Interest.
At this point my imagination fails.
It picks up again at the point that I imagine I could visit these stars in my rusty trusty Cobra.

Re: might be wrth a look

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 5:52 pm
by Combiseries
They updated some planets in the update. Could they be them.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=94724

Re: might be wrth a look

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:25 pm
by Walter
Just logged on to the update. Kepler 438B is the planet - but which star? There's no response to a search for just Kepler 438 or Kepler-438.