Where is Tabby's Star in the Elite Galaxy??
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Did you search for it by 2MASS or WISE designations? http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=TYC+3162-665-1
Tabby's Star is not in the Elite galaxy as far as I know.
If you search these fora for KIC 8462852 (the most common designation for it) you will find that this has been discussed often.
It is not in the game.
It is not in the game.
I don't think Stellar Forge is capable of showing Dyson Spheres, Ringworlds or other alien megastructures.
Tabby's Star is not in-game, because prior to 2015 when the anomaly was detected, there was nothing to distinguish KIC 8462852 from any other remote, real-world star, most of which have also not been incorporated into the game.
We could do what we did with TRAPPIST-1, and find a procedurally-generated star that just happens to be about the right type, distance and position and unilaterally declare it to be Tabby's Star.
Doing this, of course, won't create whatever weirdness is happening in Tabby's Star for you to go and look at. A substitute would be a perfectly ordinary, mundane star system.
We could do what we did with TRAPPIST-1, and find a procedurally-generated star that just happens to be about the right type, distance and position and unilaterally declare it to be Tabby's Star.
Doing this, of course, won't create whatever weirdness is happening in Tabby's Star for you to go and look at. A substitute would be a perfectly ordinary, mundane star system.
OK, just did some clicking about the galaxy map. I'd reckon the system "Pru Euq WJ-A d31" would make an excellent analogue for Tabby's Star. Right star type, right distance and approximately right location (to within a 100 LY radius, according to the best-estimate Wikipedia stats). This procedurally-generated system also has a dim M-class companion star. Maybe this companion star is unstable and is the culprit behind the anomalous observations of this star in the 21st century.
The KIC catalogue contains 2-D positional data for 13.2 million stars. Given that there are only about 100,000 "real-world" stars that have been added to the ED galaxy, there's no way they could have included the entire KIC list.
Part of the problem is the quality of the data. For many of the stars in the KIC list, we simply don't know how far away they are, so there's no way of converting the 2-D position-as-seen-from-Earth data into 3-D precise-location-on-a-map-of-the-galaxy data that ED needs, without making a pure guess as to the distance.
Part of the problem is the quality of the data. For many of the stars in the KIC list, we simply don't know how far away they are, so there's no way of converting the 2-D position-as-seen-from-Earth data into 3-D precise-location-on-a-map-of-the-galaxy data that ED needs, without making a pure guess as to the distance.
As far as catalogues go, the HR (Bright Star) catalogue is more or less complete, although many stars in it appear under other names and not their HR designations. That's about 10,000 stars that are visible to the naked eye from Earth. There's also lot of stars from the Hipparcos and Henry Draper (HIP and HD) catalogues and from the various Durchmusterungs (BD, CD, CPD).
People tend to overestimate the accuracy with which we can "place" stars in the galaxy - As Sapyx says our real-world knowledge of direction is almost exact, but our knowledge of distance is usually a lot less precise, so it's hard to translate into positions on the map.
People tend to overestimate the accuracy with which we can "place" stars in the galaxy - As Sapyx says our real-world knowledge of direction is almost exact, but our knowledge of distance is usually a lot less precise, so it's hard to translate into positions on the map.
Tabby ..... or not Tabby .... that's the problem ......
That it is easier to find a Thargoid ... than the strangest star in the Milky Way ...
Captain's log ... stardate 3308.6.13
we have arrived at the star designated as "Pru Euq WJ-A d31", of which it is believed to be the famous Star of Tabby.
In the system, we found escape pods, and cargo from crashed ships.
T.J. Kirk
closes
That it is easier to find a Thargoid ... than the strangest star in the Milky Way ...
Captain's log ... stardate 3308.6.13
we have arrived at the star designated as "Pru Euq WJ-A d31", of which it is believed to be the famous Star of Tabby.
In the system, we found escape pods, and cargo from crashed ships.
T.J. Kirk
closes