Astronomy Question: Gliese 361-iota Leonis Route

[dewline]

Is there a direct-line route between those two stars?

I tried digging one up with Celestia and Gaia Sky, and neither software seems to have Gliese 361 in the databases available to it.

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[ffutures]

Might be worth checking if Elite Dangerous has them in its database, if you know someone who's playing it.

[dewline]

I probably know a few people who play regularly.

[ffutures]

Might also be worth checking if you have the largest and most current database for Celestia, I seem to recall there being at least two versions when I last installed it.

most recent version is earlier this year. it isn't being updated on Sourceforge.

https://celestiaproject.space

[dewline]

Thanks for the reminder. I should get into the habit of downloading add-ons for that.

[pauamma]

What's a direct line route? Is that when the geodesic connecting these stars doesn't go through another star system or more? (Not that I can answer either way, but I'd like to understand the question.)

[dewline]

Ideally, yes.

In this case, though, I'm also hoping to find one or more logical "stopover" points along such a path, stars that might be within 1-2 parsecs of any point along the line-of-travel I have in mind.

[pauamma]

Thanks.