Re: Maps of teh FT universe

Sean Bayan Schoonmaker wrote:
> 
> There's an astronomy program called Gliese which has all the 
> information you need, but it's quite difficult to get a good output 
> (or at least I'm going to have to ask for help from someone who knows 
> it alot better than myself). Unfortunately, I don't have the url 
> saved. :-(

Here's a good start:

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

I believe it has Gliese on there, as well as links to a whole lot more
neat stuff, including my favorite starmap program, chview:

http://members.fcac.org/~sol/chview/

There may be cooler ones out there now, but that was the best of the
best back in good old '97.  ;-)

Tom

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Thomas Pope
Human Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
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