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bcholmes
Mar 12th, '03, 03:12 PM
One of the things I loved about 2300AD was its list of near stars, and coordinate information. I discovered that Andy Brick (http://www.caco.demon.co.uk/2300ad/NearStar.html) transcribed that list into a file available from his 2300AD web site.

I also took note of his comments that some stars in that list were fictional, and that the data didn't mesh with real data from, say, the Gliese catalog (Gliese 2). Also, since the time GDW made that list, Gliese 3 has come out.

So I've merged some of the data from those sources together as a new Near Star List (http://www.bcholmes.org/rpgs/starhero/stars.html) (Big HTML document!)
Aroooo
Mar 12th, '03, 03:28 PM
This is a great resource! But, is there a way you could make it a PDF too? It takes IE a while to draw it. Have you thought about putting it into an online database too?

Aroooo
BasilDrag
Mar 13th, '03, 05:24 PM
Originally posted by bcholmes
One of the things I loved about 2300AD was its list of near stars, and coordinate information. I discovered that Andy Brick (http://www.caco.demon.co.uk/2300ad/NearStar.html) transcribed that list into a file available from his 2300AD web site.

I also took note of his comments that some stars in that list were fictional, and that the data didn't mesh with real data from, say, the Gliese catalog (Gliese 2). Also, since the time GDW made that list, Gliese 3 has come out.

So I've merged some of the data from those sources together as a new Near Star List (http://www.bcholmes.org/rpgs/starhero/stars.html) (Big HTML document!)

Thank you very, very much for this!

However, to follow Aroooo's idea, could you do this as something people could download? Bugger .pdf, well-arranged .txt would be more useful (particularly for those who want to tinker with it. ;) )

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bcholmes
Mar 13th, '03, 08:22 PM
Originally posted by BasilDrag
Thank you very, very much for this!

However, to follow Aroooo's idea, could you do this as something people could download? Bugger .pdf, well-arranged .txt would be more useful (particularly for those who want to tinker with it. ;) )

<p>There's an <a href="http://www.bcholmes.org/rpgs/starhero/stars.xml">XML version</a>. I'll try to put up a PDF version in a coupl'a weeks.
Grymlynn
Mar 14th, '03, 02:37 PM
You Da Bomb, BC. Nice site, too.
BasilDrag
Mar 17th, '03, 12:04 AM
Originally posted by bcholmes
<p>There's an <a href="http://www.bcholmes.org/rpgs/starhero/stars.xml">XML version</a>. I'll try to put up a PDF version in a coupl'a weeks.

Um, what's XML?
It looks interesting on my browser, but how do I tinker with it? --- add notes, add my own planets, stuff like that.