Staphadu star system

[Sanduleak]

A new triple star system is under development. 

[Naru523]

Awesomeness.

[Dan Dixon]

Awesomeness.

Agreed. After the release of 2.0.5 I'm going to take a day to add rotation and other requested properties to xml files.

[Laura]

Awesomeness.

Agreed. After the release of 2.0.5 I'm going to take a day to add rotation and other requested properties to xml files.

<RotationPeriod>n</RotationPeriod> actually works now n = hours
But do add the ability to make an object with star properties without it being a known and cataloged star - that is to say Luminosity and Temperature.
Also, the ability to add custom ring systems and multiple asteroid belts in .xml
And a gentler falloff value for the new lighting system would be great, too, or perhaps an exposure setting that can amplify the light
Even a simplified version of it would work; no falloff at all, and only the nearest star is a light source.

[Sanduleak]

A couple of new screenshots showing moons orbiting gas giants Chantalat and Phaphe

Most of the maps for this project will not be mine. They are modified versions of existing maps which lend themselves to redistribution and modification.

[Naru523]

This one is totally better than mine. Haha 

[Laura]

Phaphe looks interesting What's the story?

[Sanduleak]

Phaphe looks interesting What's the story?

Phaphe is a jovian planet orbiting Staphadu C, a K7 star. Staphadu is located in ring 0 of the Cinderdar galaxy. It lies 89 light years away from Rosphevron where it was first discovered.
Shortly after the discovery a Von Neumann probe was sent from the Imogen Deep Space Exploration Facility: the probe has just reached the remote star system and the pictures are the first ones we got: the green color and numerous bright clouds which seem to be the watermark of Phaphe remain unexplained as of now. The probe is still too far away to enable its Sentinel scanners mark IV. In the meantime, any suggestion as to atmosphere composition are welcome.

The red cross in the center of this image points at Pristina (Staphadu A) as seen from the exploration facility. Imogen is the blue planet on the upper side. (Stars out of ring 0 have been filtered out for clarity)
 

[Sanduleak]

Today I spent a few hours making calculations to incorporate both Staphadu and Rosphevron systems into one UBOX file. They are now located at their real positions and actual velocities within the parent ring Galaxy.

It will be easier for me to release one ubox rather than two (and it makes more sense since all bodies belong eventually to the same galaxy).

Video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwVawLcoP4E

[Laura]

Very neat
I wonder just how many solar systems can coexist like this before everything bogs down.

[atomic7732]

For me... about 150 objects.  About 3 solar systems.

[Sanduleak]

Very neat
I wonder just how many solar systems can coexist like this before everything bogs down.

Thanks! 

My PC can stand about 1600 stars --without planets or moons, though.
I posted some nice images in this thread

[atomic7732]

I probably could do that. idk though.

[Sanduleak]

The Staphadu system is made up of a binary A-B plus a small star C:
(AB)--(C)

The brightest star is christened Pristina (A).

AB system
The A-B period is 22 years 4 months 3 weeks.

Star A: Pristina, 3.41 sun
  Planet a: Sleuth, 1.32 moon (retrograde), period 1 year 4 months 4 days
    No moons

Star B: 2.56 sun
  No planets


C system
C orbits the barycenter every 220 years approximately.

Star C: 0.60 sun
  Planet a: Miaule, 1.8 moon, period 119 days
    No moons
  Planet b: Chantalat, 68.7 earth, period 14 years 4 months 2 weeks
    Moon I: Langhott (retrograde), 0.73 moon, period 3 days 23 hours and 3 minutes
    Moon II: Clothir, 0.073 moon, period 6 days 8 hours and 20 minutes
    Moon III: Fathom, 0.055 moon, period 16 days 2 hours and 25 minutes
    Moon IV: Obosmoth, 3.37 moon, period 21 days 14 hours and 25 minutes
    Moon V: Babacar (retrograde), 0.091 moon, period 108 days
    Moon VI: Shotnog, 0.045 moon, period 113 days
  Planet c: Phaphe, 0.91 jupiter, period 24 years 10 months 2 weeks
    Moon I: Doomsay (retrograde), 0.273 moon, period 3 days 4 hours and 5 minutes
    Moon II: Eschyle (retrograde), 0.65 moon, period 49 days and 6 hours

[Naru523]

Yayzor!

[atomic7732]

Only 3 planets. Didn't notice. Nice. If they got a nice set of moons.

[Sanduleak]

Only 3 planets. Didn't notice. Nice. If they got a nice set of moons.

Actually there are four: remote Sleuth is orbiting the ABC barycenter.

[atomic7732]

that orbit sounds quite unstable.

[Sanduleak]

that orbit sounds quite unstable.

You must be right, I will increase the SMA. Thanks for the comment  

Edit: I have made Sleuth orbit the primary star (Pristina).

[Sanduleak]

The system is nearly done

I have made another HD video showing only the stars, like the picture below

[atomic7732]

Nice...