The View AKA HR 6164 AKA V 918 Scorpii
Jan. 16th, 2019 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewline"The View" is the nickname given this star by designers and players of Elite Dangerous, an online space exploration game.
The star is real enough, but its distance may be up for debate. Elite Dangerous puts it at 1400 ly from Sol, but recent data from GAIA DR2 puts it much further out: 4348 ly, give or take a few hundred.
I'd be interested to know more, but my astronomy skills aren't what they could be...
The star is real enough, but its distance may be up for debate. Elite Dangerous puts it at 1400 ly from Sol, but recent data from GAIA DR2 puts it much further out: 4348 ly, give or take a few hundred.
I'd be interested to know more, but my astronomy skills aren't what they could be...
