Re: Maps of teh FT universe

On  5 Aug 98 at 20:39, Thomas Barclay wrote:

> > http://www.netspace.net.au/~sneakin/expansion/expansion.html
> 
> Whose page is this? How did he or she make the map? Do they have the
> datafile of stars they used? What format is it in? Is such a
> datafile available? 
> 
> I'm looking to make my own map, and I'm trying to latch hold of
> accurate X,Y,Z coords (relative to earth) for the near (say 50ly)
> stars in Earth orbit, corrected to 2285 or 2300 for the sake of
> rough numbers. And maybe type and magnitude and mass data if it was
> available. Then I can fire up my old traveller world generation
> software (or the paper and pen version!) to generate the planets in
> those systems. And then campaigning becomes interesting....
> 
> I won't plague the list, but if the creator of the map wants to mail
> me personally, I'd be very interesting in getting access to the
> data. 
> 
> Tom. 

I would really really recommend that you have a look here:

http://www.clark.net/pub/nyrath/starmap.html

It's a veritable cornocopia of relevant information.
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