Are this showing massive flaws in the Stellar Forge ?

[lemny]

This massive cigar like star cluster, pointing towards Sol, at the Orion nebula shows one more detailed cataloged area of the sky.
But for my understanding, this suggest, this density of stars should be in the whole area?

There are other spots where we find these long star clusters, pointing towards Sol. I think all of them are results of deeper observations of specific areas of the sky.

Is the Stellar forge inaccurate about the density of stars?
Or has the area around Sol been completely built ONLY out of the catalog data without filling the gaps by procedural stars?

 

[Alex Brentnall]

Maybe.


So as you rightly have spotted those stars are added manually from real life star catalogues to the game. The issue is in terms of the data those catalogues have they are good in the vector from us here on Earth to say that "star is exactly over there in that direction" but it's exceptionally difficult to accurately assess the distance to these stars. Those probably have a depth tolerance of +/- 5ly or more.
An additional note is a lot of these are around high stellar activity like birthing nebula or in this case the Orion nebula. It's plausible that they'd have a higher density of stars especially new young stars.


Anyway, truth is we just don't know. It's possible you are very right and we currently don't have the equipment/accuracy to say for sure although advancements are constantly being made. There's an arguement to be made for higher star density especially in specific nebula yet on the other hand making really significant large scale changes to the galaxy simulation right now will probably upset a lot of people from the explorers who tag them to racers who plot optimal routes through stars to the people annoyed at the new bugs introduced by changing it

Hopefully this makes sense.