Cradle2Grave
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A stupid question maybe, but, are all the stars real stars - as in they are all observed stars or are some 'made-up'?
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It's a mix. The named stars are established (though you may get explored first tags on them)
There's about 130,000 real planetary objects IIRC. You will see that the real ones have catalogue names, such as HR, HIP, Gliese, HD etc. These can be found in official star catalogs.
(some of the details within systems such as where we know about a star but not if it has planets are then procedurally generated by Frontier's "Star Forge").
(some of the details within systems such as where we know about a star but not if it has planets are then procedurally generated by Frontier's "Star Forge").
Cradle2Grave
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Thanks folks!
As an amateur astronomer I can say that quite a lot of them are indeed real and those that are real are modeled quite closely on the actual characteristics of the real life stars. How cool is that? (Er if you're a complete geek like me)
... and the PG stars that "fill up the spaces" between the known, catalogued stars are those that have names following a pattern like "SOTHRLE AJ-1 XG-9". They are also generated following known distribution patterns, so it's not just a random spray of stars.
Cradle2Grave
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I am, I am!
There is a degree of artistic interpretation involved I think and a few actual scientific stats are off but generally ..... top job!!!!!!!!!
I thin that might be more down to the Galaxy map, I've had them only appearing in a cube around the currently highlighted system.
I'm with you on geekery for astronomical accuracy.
I've found the occasional hiccup, but FDev are good about taking suggested corrections on board and implementing them in a major patch.
My personal "thing" is OB star associations. NGC 6823, NGC 6871, NGC 6231, NGC 6193 and NGC 7822 are all accounted for, star for star from the main star catalogues. I check that a cluster exists in game, go to SIMBAD and grab the full star list for that cluster, then map them star for star on Galaxy Map to make a bucket list of stars to visit.
If you want to test the accuracy of the Galaxy Map yourself, pick a constellation. Now look it up on Wikipedia and get the list of stars. Sort them by visual brightness, and make a note of their HD or HIP catalogue number. Now go to Galaxy Map and enter each HD/HIP number and see which star gets highlighted. The brightest star of Cygnus is Deneb, but looking it up by HD number turns up Alpha Cygni. Same star, just an alternative name for it.
I've already come across explorers on this forum mapping out constellations, and it makes me consider doing it myself when I get back from my deep space run.
I have the Cambridge Star Atlas and I was pondering doing exactly the same thing as you and mapping out some of the constellations. Again when I get back from my Jaunt.
I'm thinking that Orion may be a good place to go and check out as it has a myriad of very cool (geeky) stuff around that whole region. I'm told that Betelgeus is represented to scale!!! But also would it not be cool to visit the Trapezium Stars in that great star birth factory?
Yeah the stellar forge messes something up occasionally but if you're not an expert, you don't most likely know it. Like eg. it's not possible for star X to orbit star Y or have planet Z orbiting it because of reasons. The weird thing I've seen is that there have been 18500 million year old stars but the universe is ca. 13000 million years old... Unless I'm missing something or I'm just too stupid 
Out of the 4 stars Wikipedia lists being 'component of the Trapezium' 2 are not in the game (at least there are no stars with their HIP or HD catalogue numbers, or by the name 'Theta1 Orionis A' or 'Theta1 Orionis C'), and 2 appear as their HIP numbered versions, but their locations seem very weird if they're supposed to be 'Theta1 Orionis B' and 'Theta1 Orionis D'.
BTW, what other names the star WASP-82 might be known, it doesn't appear with that name in E: D either?
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@Werppa: Kasterborous constellation, maybe?
Doctor Who stuff? Never watched it so don't really know what you're implying
If the wiki listed four Trapezium stars they've missed some out - I can just about see the E and F stars with my scope.....
I'm dead keen to get there now! How does the horses head nebula look?
I've heard that about Betelgeuse. VY Canis Majoris is apparently to scale as well.
I visited KY Cygni which has similar characteristics and dropped out of witchspace at a distance equivalent to the orbit of Saturn from Sol. The star filled my view and I was scooping in less than 5 seconds.
I said I like mapping OB star associations? This was my ticklist for NGC 6231 in Scorpio.
V945 Scorpii also got a close up in Cmdr Erimus' "New Horizons, pt 9" video.
[video=youtube;w0FTEQ10OoI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0FTEQ10OoI[/video]
There is a lot of mileage to stories about real stars.