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Chara: Beta Canum Venaticorum Planetary System
Filename: Chara_V01.zip
Author: Eugene Harm
Type: Scenery
Size: 12M
Review: Jan 2005
File Description:
A planetary system employing Orbiter 2005 various effects and features based upon an
actual sunlike star, Beta Canum Venaticorum. The package includes planets, moons, bases, new vessels and new space stations. The planetary systems celestial bodies were create with LunarCell.
STARS and STAR OF THE WEEK
Star; Chara, Mass = 1.909e30 Size = 7.2384e8
Review:
My own add-on creation of the Star: CHARA (Beta Canum Venaticorum).
Chara is a northern star that vaults the heavens in northern spring, "Chara" from Greek
meaning "joy." Chara's most interesting aspect is its similarity to our own sun. It is a warm class G star with a temperature of 5860 Kelvin (only 80 degrees
hotter than the Sun), a mass only four percent smaller, and a radius but four percent larger, though it is 25 percent more luminous.
Chara star information
Although the star information is factual the celestial bodies and everything else about this addon is fictional. As usual I wanted a real star with a habitable
zone to base my system on. For the planets and moons I was able to create increadble realistic textures with LunarCell, a Photoshop plugin. This add-on
only has four planets but has plenty of beauty to explore. This package is more then just celestial bodies, it's complete worlds with new ships, stations and
bases. All the bases include VOR stations with navbeacon transmitters and many of the bases include sky cams. Space stations include fuel tanks for
refueling when docked. The FuelMFD add-on is neccessary to take advantage of this. To add to the beauty the planets include the Orbiter 2005 atmospheric haze effects and surface meshes cast shadows.
The Vessels Thunder and Viper were modeled by my son Luke Harm.
Related Links:
Blue Mars
Terra System
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