o7 fellow cosmic pioneers!
I've just departed my new squadron and PMF home system on a jolly little jaunt around the nebulae in our galactic neighbourhood, and as I've been making my way 'up' the galactic plane to my first waypoint I've encountered a sort of curiosity...
You see, I'm hardly learned in the art and science of astronomy but (obviously since I'm here) I find it all fascinating! Sometimes when I'm taking a smoke break I'll whip out the stargazer app on my phone and try and look up at where I've parked my spaceship, so when I picked a random system as my first waypoint I plotted a route to HIP 64938; it seemed as good as any because it was approximately 1kly 'above' my starting location from where I could zoom over my target nebula and drop back down on the rimward side to get those lovely views of it against the galactic core. It's also my understanding that the HIP designation is from a real-world star catalogue so, in theory, one could look up present day information or data on said star... you know, just for that wow moment when you appreciate the size, scale and endeavour of this 1:1 galaxy.
When I plugged 'HIP 64938' into google though I'm either struggling to find what I'm looking for, or not understanding what I'm looking at... both equally possible! The top result on said internet search is this page here which gives the designation HR 3093, with the other names listed as HD 64938 / HIP 38794 amongst others. Comparing the right ascension and declination from said page (they give the star's location as it appears in the sky here, right?) they don't match up with the HIP 64398 record on EDSM, although to be fair there's a thousand years or so difference isn't there! Following on from that this page here, a couple down from the top search hit, matches up with the first search hit and also gives the designation HD 64938; the data from both pages about the same IRL star match up, but I can't make heads nor tails of how they match up to the in-game star, or if I'm even looking at the right stuff.
Some possibilities and queries;
1). I'm not reading the data presented to me correctly or misinterpreting it. Has anyone any pointers therefore to a layman's guide to looking up in-game IRL stars beyond the obligatory google/wikipedia searches?
2). I've misunderstood and it's not a real star, back to flying my spaceship!
3). I'm not clever enough to keep playing this game and should do something more appropriate, like getting drunk and making a public nuisance of myself.
So, great and learned community of virtual space explorers, can I pick your brains for any enlightenment? Space is an amateur passion of mine so it's rather fun being able to look up real-world information and articles on cosmic phenomena you can find in game, so thanks in advance for any assistance!
I've just departed my new squadron and PMF home system on a jolly little jaunt around the nebulae in our galactic neighbourhood, and as I've been making my way 'up' the galactic plane to my first waypoint I've encountered a sort of curiosity...
You see, I'm hardly learned in the art and science of astronomy but (obviously since I'm here) I find it all fascinating! Sometimes when I'm taking a smoke break I'll whip out the stargazer app on my phone and try and look up at where I've parked my spaceship, so when I picked a random system as my first waypoint I plotted a route to HIP 64938; it seemed as good as any because it was approximately 1kly 'above' my starting location from where I could zoom over my target nebula and drop back down on the rimward side to get those lovely views of it against the galactic core. It's also my understanding that the HIP designation is from a real-world star catalogue so, in theory, one could look up present day information or data on said star... you know, just for that wow moment when you appreciate the size, scale and endeavour of this 1:1 galaxy.
When I plugged 'HIP 64938' into google though I'm either struggling to find what I'm looking for, or not understanding what I'm looking at... both equally possible! The top result on said internet search is this page here which gives the designation HR 3093, with the other names listed as HD 64938 / HIP 38794 amongst others. Comparing the right ascension and declination from said page (they give the star's location as it appears in the sky here, right?) they don't match up with the HIP 64398 record on EDSM, although to be fair there's a thousand years or so difference isn't there! Following on from that this page here, a couple down from the top search hit, matches up with the first search hit and also gives the designation HD 64938; the data from both pages about the same IRL star match up, but I can't make heads nor tails of how they match up to the in-game star, or if I'm even looking at the right stuff.
Some possibilities and queries;
1). I'm not reading the data presented to me correctly or misinterpreting it. Has anyone any pointers therefore to a layman's guide to looking up in-game IRL stars beyond the obligatory google/wikipedia searches?
2). I've misunderstood and it's not a real star, back to flying my spaceship!
So, great and learned community of virtual space explorers, can I pick your brains for any enlightenment? Space is an amateur passion of mine so it's rather fun being able to look up real-world information and articles on cosmic phenomena you can find in game, so thanks in advance for any assistance!
