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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [qb] 12. A star just to the left of Polaris was the star of the "Strange New World" star system. It was evening-time, in the northern hemisphere, in late February or March of 2154. It shouldn't be too difficult to figure out which star he referred to, given the naked-eye visibility in a darkening-but-not-dark-yet evening sky. [/qb][/QUOTE]There are two possibilities for this one. The most likely is HR 285 (aka HD 5848), which will be almost perfectly to the very left of Polaris at just-about-dark on March 15, 2154 (which I chose as a rough estimate date). However, I'm having a helluva time trying to get a distance for that star, and I'm afraid it might be too far. I haven't found mention of its distance in any of the "distances to stars within (a good number of) light-years" references online. So, I'll have to get freakly on the parallax, I suppose. The alternative is Alrai, aka Gamma Cepheus. It's about 50ly out, but is about three times as far to the left, a bit down, and so on. Both stars are about the same type, though Alrai is much brighter in the night sky and hence more easily visible. The idea that Archer could see HR 285 at dusk would be odd. Remarkably, the starfield they used in the shot actually does resemble the real thing, though the brightnesses aren't quite right based on the cap I've seen. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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