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It nice to see the forum exactly as I left it, packed to the gills with knowledgeable and good-natured ST fanatics. Does anybody have a pic of the Milkyway galaxy they would be willing to part with?
Shik
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A picture of the Milky way? Go outside with a camera. There y'go.
Heh...seriously, though...I thake it you're looking for a picture of a spiral or barred spiral galaxy, right? Like an astronomical one, or like a flat top-view planar deal for use in a trek map?
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Go to your library. An issue of last year's "National Geographic" (November, I think, maybe earlier) had an excellent oblique view inclusing what we would call the "Alpha Quadrant" in closer detail.
What you're asking for depends on what you want to do with it.
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Sorry..uh..yeah...um, I am looking for the spiral form of a galaxy to use in my stellar cartography section of my web page. The only reason I asked is because I remember seeing some pretty cool fan charts portraying the theoretical positions of Earth and other Alpha quadrant residents. There is a pretty good pic in the DS9 tech manual but I really don't want to just scan it.
Another Question: Theoretically a sector usually contains about ten systems, so does anybody have any ideas of systems that might be in the Terran Sector 001.
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Well, the thing is, how do you define Sector 001? In TBoBW, someone said they were entering Sector 001, and it immediately cut to the E-D flying through the Sol System. This would suggest that we are not centered in S001, but, rather, that we are at one side of it. My guess would be that one side of the sector is made up of the alpha-beta border, and that it extends 20ly into the alpha quadrant. It would also extend 10ly "north", "south", "up", and "down" from Sol. I have a list I've made w/ coordinates of some stars, and none of them fall into this range, so Sol might be the only major one.
Of course, if you assume Sol to be the center of S001, you can throw in a few others: Sirius, Procyon, Alpha Centauri, Andor (Epsilon Indi), and Wolf359.
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If you want nice maps of the Galaxy, try Christian Ruehl's Star Trek Dimension site. There you can find maps taken from a book called "Guide to the Galaxy," which is the only source I know of scientifically accurate galactic maps. He also has nice maps of his own of the Star Trek galaxy. http://www.stdimension.de/int/
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To make your own maps, I'd suggest going here and clicking the links labelled "Oh No! Not Trigonometry!" (how to convert right ascension, declination, and distance into coordinates) and "But Wait, there's more!" (how to convert those coordinates into ones where the alpha-beta border is the XZ plane). There are also sites out there where you can find the RA/dec/distance for stars.
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