- Apr 22, 2017
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Hahahahaha!!! That's a long time - no wonder the star remains pretty static in the field of view.After much deliberation (and more than just a couple of beers) it dawned on me that the habitable zone means nothing for a space station that has it's own means of controlling the climate, so I turned to what we actually know from the game itself. In the intro, it is mentioned that the star is actually R Aquarii (which is a binary star system of a red giant and a white dwarf). The mass of the red giant is 1.0-1.5 times the mass of the Sun and the mass of the dwarf is 0.6-1.0 times mass of the Sun. For the sake of simplicity we'll consider the combined mass of both stars to be 2.0 times mass of the Sun. The distance between the two stars is orders of magnitude less than the distance from the station to the red giant, so we can assume that they form a single object at their gravity center.
The radius of the red giant is 430 times larger than the radius of the Sun and it looks like it takes half of the horizontal FOV of the camera:
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The camera I set in Daz is with with frame width of 35mm and a focal length of 65mm, which means that the horizontal field of view is roughly 30 degrees. Which means that the red giant takes about 15 degrees of the horizon. That is MASSIVE. For comparison our Sun takes only half degree. Anyway, I started calculating and... lost interest. 20-something years ago that would've been a fun exercise for my physics class, now... not so much.
Enter ChatGPT
So I asked it to calculate that and here is the response. Make of that what you will...
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I'm in my 60's now but thanks for the brief trip down memory lane - you made me remember a lot of the shit I forgot at University years ago!! Reading about gravitational constants, Keplers Law, mass vs distance, etc... what a hoot!!
In reality, I'm not looking at the view outside the view ports - I'm looking at tits & asses!!! LMAO!!!