Star clusters?
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There are three types of clusters in the game: Open Clusters, OB Associations and with a bit of goodwill also T Associations.
Open Clusters can be found by viewing one of the real world's star catalogues like NGC or Collinder (Col). Take NGC 3590, NGC 3114, NGC 3766, NGC 2367 for example. Or, looking at the Eta Carina Complex you'll find Trumpler 16 and Trumpler 14 as well as Col 228. In the Skull and Crossbones nebula you'll find Haffner 18 and 19 (if somewhat miniaturized).
OB and T Associations require a bit more search but basically any formation of massive stars (O, B, A) can be considered one of these. The most prominent you'll find in NGC 7822. However, FD is not consistent in putting these into the game. In many astronomical entries for nebulae for example you can read about their correlating more massive stars that burn the nebula away with their radiation. But when you search them they can be either omitted or located completely elsewhere. And T Tauri Associations are too hard to spot nowadays as they usually hide deep within molecular clouds that absorb their light.
You can also have alook at the maps and entries of the Galaxy Mapping Project or the First Great Expedition. Most prominent Open Clusters (and some imaginary ones) can be found there.
Hope that helps a bit.
Fly safe!
Andrew
Open Clusters can be found by viewing one of the real world's star catalogues like NGC or Collinder (Col). Take NGC 3590, NGC 3114, NGC 3766, NGC 2367 for example. Or, looking at the Eta Carina Complex you'll find Trumpler 16 and Trumpler 14 as well as Col 228. In the Skull and Crossbones nebula you'll find Haffner 18 and 19 (if somewhat miniaturized).
OB and T Associations require a bit more search but basically any formation of massive stars (O, B, A) can be considered one of these. The most prominent you'll find in NGC 7822. However, FD is not consistent in putting these into the game. In many astronomical entries for nebulae for example you can read about their correlating more massive stars that burn the nebula away with their radiation. But when you search them they can be either omitted or located completely elsewhere. And T Tauri Associations are too hard to spot nowadays as they usually hide deep within molecular clouds that absorb their light.
You can also have alook at the maps and entries of the Galaxy Mapping Project or the First Great Expedition. Most prominent Open Clusters (and some imaginary ones) can be found there.
Hope that helps a bit.
Fly safe!
Andrew
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That's too bad. One of the last things I did in the bay area was go to the Chabot Space and Science Center and look through the big telescopes they have there. One of them was focused on the M11 globular cluster (a.k.a. Wild Duck) and it was really cool. Looking at it in person would be even better
I hope they work this in someday.
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From what I recall globular cluster's star density would cause some problems with performance, so no M13 mapping it seems. From what I've seen how plotting is slow in the core, I can imagine it would get even worse inside a globular cluster where distances between star systems would be measured in ls and and not ly.
M11 is an Open Cluster (NGC 6705). Globular Clusters, as mentioned somewhere else, are mostly located in the galaxy's halo so they wouldn't be accessible anyway. Someone else mentioned globular clusters would be in the galaxy's disc or Bulge, too, but so far I found no reference for one of these. Other than tha, what newman1702 wrote: Globular clusters are so densely packed that you'd find up to 1,000 systems in a 10 x 10 x 10 LY cube. It is also estimated they do not hold planetary bodies as the inter-star gravity would have torn them to pieces ages ago.
That's it in a nutshell.
That's it in a nutshell.
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This is correct, and many procedural clusters of these types can be found. Many of them are evident from the skybox, and a little pannig in the gal map to find their location is required. Let me look if I have some screenie...
Basically if they are Open clusters of bright stars or OB associations you will see it as a group of stars in the skybox.
Clusters of TT can be found filtering the galactic map, they come in groups in many regions and are star formations area. They can be inside nebulae or very far from them.
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The Galactic Mapping Thread lists pretty much all discovered clusters now. You can see their approximate locations and procedural references on there.
The vast majority of clusters are all on the Local Orion Spur map, as FD haven't seeded many (if any) beyond that it seems.