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Re: A Useful Tool for the Sector Moderator
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Date: 
Sun, 7 Sep 2003 16:59:21 GMT
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In lugnet.gaming, Lindsay Frederick Braun wrote:
Hi,

I've found the following little helpful bit
of freeware for those SMs who like using XYZ
space and loads of stars.  It's called 3D Star
Map (ver. 1.3), and can be acquired at:

http://www.psyberion.com/sauron/techdev/swdownload.html

It's taken all the long math out of my distance
calculations, and really has been helpful to the
travelers as well.  I recommend it heartily if,
like me, you've got a severe "astrophysics realism"
fetish and like tossing stars into 3D space.

(Oh, and I don't know if it's Mac-friendly at all.)

all best

LFB (-3,7)

Cool.  I DL'd it and tried it out -- great tool, but it's gonna take me a little
while to learn how to use it ;-)

Thanks for the interesting post!
Andrew



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  Re: A Useful Tool for the Sector Moderator
 
(...) And of course a link to basic information about spectral classes and types: (URL) I should have put this in first but, hey, there you go. You can actually get XYZ Gliese data online too, if you go looking, so you can plot absolutely huge XYZ (...) (21 years ago, 8-Sep-03, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.gaming.starship)

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  A Useful Tool for the Sector Moderator
 
Hi, I've found the following little helpful bit of freeware for those SMs who like using XYZ space and loads of stars. It's called 3D Star Map (ver. 1.3), and can be acquired at: (URL) It's taken all the long math out of my distance calculations, (...) (21 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.gaming)

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