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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Revanche, the coordinates for the real stars in the Alpha/Beta quadrants were originally taken from the data available at [URL=http://www.stdimension.de.]www.stdimension.de.[/URL] Chris R�hl made a 2D map out of that data, and I stole the map and redid the "national borders" on it. Mandel then stole this modified version of the map, which covered all the Alpha and Beta pages of the book. No need for a coordinate database any more when the dots were already in place. (The map at that point was a simple jpeg image without any layered structure to it. I'd set the distances by counting individual pixels...) When adding stars and judging distances, we simply referred back to Christian's original data, which is in the easy-to-read cartesian coordinate format. I doubt Mandel really invented Z coordinates for the stars he made up, though. But he did add about as many real stars as there were originally. The stars in the Gamma and Delta sections of the book are of course quite fictional. Save perhaps for some "highlight" phenomena that weren't mentioned in the show but are known features of our galaxy. Their rough locations can be found in just about any astronomy textbook nowadays. Or in a very nice map appendix to National Geographic. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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