AMNH Fixed Stars
AMNH Fixed Stars
| Group Name | stars |
| Reference | The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues
(ESA 1997)
Third Catalogue of Nearby Stars (Preliminary) (Gliese+ 1991) |
| Prepared by | Ron Drimmel (University of Torino, Italy)
Brian Abbott (AMNH/Hayden) Carter Emmart (AMNH/Hayden) Stuart Levy (NCSA/UIUC) James Adams (AMNH/Hayden) |
| Labels | Yes |
| Files | stars.speck, stars.label |
| Dependencies | halo.sgi, colorbv.cmap |
| Census | 24,676 stars, 226 labels |
The stars appear in the Extragalactic Atlas to provide us with a familiar context within the extragalactic data. With the stars, we can go back to a night-sky view and see where particular galaxies are located relative to the stars we see in the sky.
In the Extragalactic Atlas, we place the stars at a fixed distance of 1 megaparsec from the Milky Way. From the Point of Interest, the stars take on their proper night-sky appearance, but they are all 3.26 million light-years from the Sun's position in the Extragalactic Atlas.
A detailed description of the stars may be found in “AMNH Stars” in the Milky Way Atlas, where the stars are properly placed in three-dimensional space.
© 2002-2005 American Museum of Natural History
Last Modified: 2007-12-19 by Brian Abbott