Does this look normal to you?

[McCain]

So, I'm currently running this simulation (1 sun, 2 red dwarfs on tidal lock, and a hand full of Mercuries.) and low and behold!

[vh]

....strange i'm pretty sure it's not supposed to happen

[smjjames]

Could you upload the sim McCain?

If a star is spinning very fast, it can look oval like that, but AFAIK, there is no such feature like that in US.

[McCain]

I so wish I could.

US had a problem and stopped responding while I was at work, on top of that, I never saved it. Sorry.

At any rate, I had not thought of the Star's rotation distorting its self, I will have to investigate this further.

But now that you mention it, the inner red dwarf (tidal locked) had a very elliptical orbit ranging from the furthest distance of about a thousand or so Au, and at its closest well into the central star's ( one solar mass, default rotaion of 25.4 days) habitable range. What I'm thinking, is with such a wild orbit like that, it could have increased the central star's rotation slightly with each pass. Given the system lasted 67,000 Sim years, i can see that happening.

The outer red dwarf had a much larger orbit, I would say well into ten thousand plus Au. Its effect would be negligible.

I'm going to try and recreate the Sim and see what happens.

[FiahOwl]

What I'm thinking, is with such a wild orbit like that, it could have increased the central star's rotation slightly with each pass.

I'm sad to say that uBox does not simulate that

[vh]

I'm wondering if you might be trolling us
if not that, then either there was a ninja update or your screen/graphics thing is strange

[smjjames]

How about we see if he can replicate it?

[McCain]

I trying my best considering I set that Sim up a week ago.




Trollin' is hard on the interwbz mud.
I much rather Hulu.

[Dan Dixon]

I've seen this happen when you let a simulation run for a long time (with the Earth specifically).

This is a bug. Saving and reloading the simulation will make the strange stretching go away. It will not load this way.

[McCain]

Ah!

So normal it is.  lol

Yeah, I had that one running for just over a week. not bad.

[dhm794]

I believe the star Vega actually looks like that, so it could be an interesting physics-related feature.

[smjjames]

I believe the star Vega actually looks like that, so it could be an interesting physics-related feature.

I think its Altair that actually looks like that, Vega doesn't bulge out as much.

[dhm794]

I believe the star Vega actually looks like that, so it could be an interesting physics-related feature.

I think its Altair that actually looks like that, Vega doesn't bulge out as much.

According to Wikipedia, they both have a shape similar to that (though not nearly as exaggerated).