Talk:Antares (star)
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Notes (2007)[edit]
Does traveller have standard units for stellar mass, earth mass, diameters, etc. The Solomani likely imposed some of their units like parsec...
- - Rimguy 16:50, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
- The authors of traveller used solar equivalents in many charts etc, more for player familiarity (and likely due to many formulae being presented that way). The terran day and year are used as a "standard" in many canon materials, so yes we can assume that the Solomani imposed this during the rule of man, as to why the Sylean Federation used it...
- - Dcorrin 13:37, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Not only that... why reinvent the wheel?
- - Sstefan 13:46, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
The distance estimate for Antares is ~190 parsec, looking at its placement on the map, it comes out to 160-170pc I used 55pc as the distance to Capital/Vland. Deneb is way out of place with estimates from 2,100 to 7,400 ly, Traveller has it at ~200 pc (652 ly).
- - Dcorrin 13:58, 18 October 2007 (UTC)