<Greys>
UmbralRaptor, is there a typical maximum range at which even the largest star can be seen with the naked eye?
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<UmbralRaptor>
Greys: Sorta. Stars vary enough of brightness that I'd end up with a range and lots of assumptions. For a place with reasonably dark skies I'd say ~10,000 light years.
<UmbralRaptor>
Assuming everything lines up properly (Luminosity class Ia no dust, etc), maybe double that?
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<G-Mobile>
I phrased that poorly, what I'm interested in is the concept of generating starscapes by rendering an emulation of real astronomy stuff
<G-Mobile>
So the first order of business is establishing a sight horizon to estimate the scale of the emulation
<G-Mobile>
I assume the big thing here is angular width, absolute brightness, and color relative to distance for shifting
<G-Mobile>
fricken client is buppin up
<G-Mobile>
Bup...
<G-Mobile>
Buppp
<G-Mobile>
Seems fixed
<G-Mobile>
If one star perfectly eclipses another, is anything about the obstructed star apparent in observation of the obscuring star?
<Iskierka>
I think there's very few naked eye objects with angular width greater than a pixel
<egg>
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<UmbralRaptor>
G-Mobile: not directly. Though if you watch the stars for the whole cycle, you'll see changes in brightness (and possibly color)
<UmbralRaptor>
Like Iskierka said, you can more or less assume that everything is 1 pixel.
<UmbralRaptor>
Uh, unless you want to also include galaxies and/or nebulae?
<UmbralRaptor>
I'd initially assume no real doppler or cosmological red (or blue) shifts unless you plan on simulating telescopes.
<UmbralRaptor>
Big thing is blackbody temperatures for stars, their radii, and their distances vs sensitivity of the eye?
<Iskierka>
UmbralRaptor, even then, if assuming no zoom (because naked eye) I don't think anything would be above a pixel that's naked-eye visible
<UmbralRaptor>
Sight horizon for individual stars is weird given that they vary in luminosity by something like one million. Maybe 1-8 lightyears for M-dwarfs, but on the order of 10000 lighyears for supergiants.
<Iskierka>
even the moon is like what, 12 pixels?
<Iskierka>
(at KSP FoV)
<UmbralRaptor>
Not sure about KSP FoV. Assuming 1-4 arcminutes, the moon would be ~7-30 pixels.