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Endeavour Series graphics
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Fantastic graphics Andy.
I still haven't had a chance to sit down and read the Endeavour series properly, but as someone who is currently working out how many planets he can get away with giving Alpha Centauri (you can't just make stuff up nowadays when we have to cope with actual found actual exoplanets!) this is relevant to my interests regardless.
I still haven't had a chance to sit down and read the Endeavour series properly, but as someone who is currently working out how many planets he can get away with giving Alpha Centauri (you can't just make stuff up nowadays when we have to cope with actual found actual exoplanets!) this is relevant to my interests regardless.
It was fun to make up.
Fornax and Alaz have, as a matter of fact, some pedigree already.
Alpha Centauri Bb was reported in 2012 as close to Earth mass with an orbit of about 3.25 days - but, sadly, further investigation demonstrated that the evidence presented wasn't robust enough to pull out of the signal noise. Fornax may still exist, but the evidence for its existence was way short of statistical significance.
Alpha Centauri Bc is more robust - Dumory et al reported (via the transit method) a probably planet at around 0.1 au from Alpha Centauri B, with an orbital period somewhere around 12 days (as high as 20 and as low as 8), so that one made it in and Alaz is probably still there.
The rest of the planets come from that and resonance with the orbit of Alpha Centauri A and B around their common scentre of mass - the gas giants (Taranis for Alpha Centauri B, and Tian for Alpha Centauri A) are, as anyone geeky enough will have spotted, in orbits such that they can end up always "behind" their parent star during the period of closest approach between the stars. The other planetary orbits in each system come from resonance with the dominant planet's orbit. That provides for a long-term stable system (as any proto-planets in other orbits wouldn't have survived over the aeons)
The second gas giant in the Alpha Centauri A system (not yet shown), Enki, is far too close to its star to have evolved there, but the double star system provides plenty of opportunities for such orbital shifts. In fact, having seen systems like TRAPPIST-1, it's arguable that this system is too plausible to be realistic...
Indeed - the Kepler data has been a considerable relief when I was thinking I would have to retcon a star system I designed when I was fifteen and thought was unrealistic, but reality has turned out to be odder...
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You've put so much umph into this and it shows.
On the thing I was discussing with Andy above, I just realised that TESS has the potential to bugger any fictional depiction of nearby star systems relatively soon...
Hello, all !
I started working on schematics of the Endeavour already last year in spring. Being personally busy, it was an on-and-off effort, but I've had it mostly finished since autumn. Emphasis on mostly. What you see below is still a work in progress, though nearly finished. The smaller modules aren't in the right configuration yet, but I'm working on turning them by a 90° angle.
The schematic is based closely on the descriptions and data provided to me by Andy last year. Note the size chart and comparisons. I've made two versions, a blue and white variant of the ship, because I couldn't decide which looked better.
Once the smaller modules will be in the more correct configuration, I'll repost the final versions of both images.
Hope you like these.
I started working on schematics of the Endeavour already last year in spring. Being personally busy, it was an on-and-off effort, but I've had it mostly finished since autumn. Emphasis on mostly. What you see below is still a work in progress, though nearly finished. The smaller modules aren't in the right configuration yet, but I'm working on turning them by a 90° angle.
The schematic is based closely on the descriptions and data provided to me by Andy last year. Note the size chart and comparisons. I've made two versions, a blue and white variant of the ship, because I couldn't decide which looked better.
Once the smaller modules will be in the more correct configuration, I'll repost the final versions of both images.
Hope you like these.
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