A good old-fashioned distance chart
Mar. 2nd, 2011 07:40 pmI'm a sucker for stories set in universes like Niven's Known Space or Cherryh's Alliance/Union, where a lot of the action takes place around stars within around 20 light years of Sol. So for anyone who might want to use that kind of backdrop, here's a chart showing the distances between some of the more sunlike stars within that distance.
Here are the stars:
And here's the chart:
As I have a couple of offline commitments that will be taking up most of my time for a few weeks, there will be a hiatus in posting... but I'll be back before long!
Here are the stars:
- Alpha and Proxima Centauri/Gliese 559: 4.4 light-years, class G2V
- Epsilon Eridani/Gliese 144: 10.5 light-years, class K2V
- Epsilon Indi/Gliese 845: 11.8 light-years, class K5V
- Tau Ceti/Gliese 71: 11.9 light-years, class G8V
- 40 Eridani/Gliese 166: 16.5 light-years, class K1V
- Sigma Draconis/Gliese 764: 18.8 light-years, class K0V
- Eta Cassiopeiae/Gliese 34: 19.4 light-years, class G3V
- 82 Eridani/Gliese 139: 19.8 light-years, class G5V
- Delta Pavonis/Gliese 780: 19.9 light-years, class G8V
And here's the chart:
559 | 144 | 845 | 71 | 166 | 764 | 34 | 139 | 780 | |
Sol | 4.4 | 10.5 | 11.8 | 11.9 | 16.5 | 18.8 | 19.4 | 19.8 | 19.9 |
559 | 12.6 | 9.7 | 13.5 | 18.4 | 22.4 | 23.7 | 19.2 | 16.5 | |
144 | 14.1 | 5.5 | 6.4 | 24.3 | 19.5 | 12.5 | 22.5 | ||
845 | 11.5 | 19.4 | 27.8 | 27.2 | 15.1 | 9.2 | |||
71 | 10.2 | 24.9 | 19.9 | 11.9 | 20 | ||||
166 | 29 | 22.6 | 12 | 26.9 | |||||
764 | 11.2 | 36.1 | 35.9 | ||||||
34 | 31.2 | 36.9 | |||||||
139 | 19.1 |
As I have a couple of offline commitments that will be taking up most of my time for a few weeks, there will be a hiatus in posting... but I'll be back before long!