[MPL3D]

Hi all,

we are creating a web based catalogue of the most famous stars and celestial bodies:

http://www.mpl3d.com/catalogue.htm

Just a few by now, we'll be adding more until we have a nice collection of interesting places to visit.

[EDIT]

Added so far:

Aldebaran (87 Alpha Tauri - HD29139)
Altair (53 Alpha Aquilae - HD187642)
Antares (21 Alpha Scorpii - HD148478)
Arcturus (16 Alpha Bootis - HD124897)
Betelgeuse (58 Alpha Orionis - HD39801)
Canopus (Alpha Carinae - HD45348)
Deneb (50 Alpha Cygni - HD197345)
Polaris (1 Alpha Ursae Minoris - HD8890)
Rigel (19 Beta Orionis - HD34085)
Rigil Kentaurus (Alpha Centauri 1 - HD128620)
Sadira (18 Epsilon Eridani - HD22049)
Sirius (9 Alpha Canis Majoris - HD48915)
Vega (3 Alpha Lyrae - HD172167)

[GalaxyExplorer]

Interesting places to visit - what about including Sagittarius A* ?

Are there any other known black holes included in the simulation ?

[MPL3D]

Definitively a place that shouldn't be missed

I'm afraid that there are no black holes other than Sagittarius A* right now.

I wish I had time to talk about it properly, as it deserves so. What can be seen at the simulation, Sagittarius A*, is a super-massive black hole.

As far as I know, there is no other black hole like that one in our galaxy. All the rest known are much more smaller in size as well as in mass. These detected ones use to belong to a system whose Visual Magnitude is outside the reach of the simulation right now, so they are not represented at all. These systems usually are catalogued as cataclysmic binaries.

When the star number become increased, there are plans for including their black holes when corresponding.

Also, it wouldn't be a bad idea to add a super-massive black hole at the center of each galaxy, but no plans to do so yet. Rather we'd include the known stars orbiting Sagittarius A*, and improve its representation.

[GalaxyExplorer]

All sounding good . It would be a neat idea to add super massive black holes at the center of each galaxy along with the cataclysmic binaries - the majority of people who are interested in astronomy and cosmology tend to be fascinated with these objects - as I'm sure you already know .

There are supposed to be a number of intermediate-sized black holes at the center's of some globular clusters. Some will obviously contain the smallest class of black holes as they begin to grow. From what I know of, those without just have a large number of stars orbiting each other at their centers.

[MPL3D]

Nice point. I've read also that Omega Centauri cluster resembles a dwarf galaxy, as it seems to have an interesting black hole inside it.

Anyway, globular clusters are hard to represent, as they use to eat many resources due to the high amount of stars that they contain, so it is far from now that they'll have black holes inside.

Nevertheless, I strongly recommend visiting the clusters, globular as well as open, they give a very accurate idea of where are they placed and how big they are. Many interesting ones, for example I suggest to visit the Trapezium cluster, inside Orion Nebula, or Tau Canis Majoris cluster, with its contact binary star system just at the center of it.

Besides these, many other clusters contain visitable stars, like the Hyades open cluster, a beautiful one.