Welp there goes Saturday. Now relative to the galactic plane. Gotta figure out how to reveal stars that end up inside the display radius of their larger companion.pic.twitter.com/yvIg5Hbavw
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Obviously once I get all the data in the right format, I'm going to do this in LaTeX with PGF/TikZ.
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The 1,000 stars closest to the sun, positions relative to the galactic plane, size proportional to radii in units of R_{☉} (with a cut-off for the very big ones), colored according to effective temperature.pic.twitter.com/itqF1XhNk2
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I'm not an astronomer, and I cobbled this together in-between cleaning, making dinner, and wrangling two 7 year olds having a sleepover. Here's the code. Dumb mistakes are someone else's fault. https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/rmcnees/Published/SolarNeighborhood …pic.twitter.com/qcscGxksdr
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Thread from last night (with code) about plotting the locations of the nearest stars.2 replies 1 retweet 21 likesShow this thread -
The 100 stars nearest to the Sun, with the viewpoint rotating about an axis perpendicular to the galactic plane. The Sun is at the center of the plot.pic.twitter.com/FwztwKDpBo
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For some reason Twitter choked on this at 2048 x 2048. Had to reduce it to 1024 x 1024 before it was accepted as a "valid" gif.
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Replying to @mcnees
max gif upload is 5MB for twitter .. although they say you can upload bigger ones, if they're above 5MB they will not display on mobile .. .mp4 files however have a much higher threshold
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Yeah, it's weird. The gif was below 5MB but I was still getting an "invalid media" message. After reducing the resolution to 1024 x 1024 it uploaded fine!
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