Distance in parsecs is calculated as 1000/parallax.
Distance in light-years = 3.261563777 * distance in parsecs.
Distance in parsecs is calculated as 1000/parallax.
Distance in light-years = 3.261563777 * distance in parsecs.
Nice work!
How did you do the spectral types?
Background is that I tried to brute-force-fit BmV and UmB to Planck curves to get a better fit for T_eff than by using Ballasteros et al. Was meant for a 3D-model of the Orion Arm I use for "navigation" in my science fiction saga.
(That is based on the second HIPPARCOS reduction parallaxes, not GAIA. Yet.)
Nice work!
How did you do the spectral types?
Background is that I tried to brute-forse-fit BmV and UmB to Planck curves to get a better fit for T_eff than by using Ballasteros et al. Was meant for a 3D-model of the Orion Arm I use for "navigation" in my science fiction saga.
(That is based on the second HIPPARCOS reduction parallaxes, not GAIA. Yet.)
I just used spectral types mentioned in SIMBAD database. They are taken from various publications in astrophysical journals (explicitly mentioned in SIMBAD).
Was meant for a 3D-model of the Orion Arm I use for "navigation" in my science fiction saga.
Is it published ? 😎
Is it published ? 😎
No, that's a Blender model with some Python scripts to outline trajectories, intersection points etc.
But it's useful and good fun – seeing e.g. (our) Orion constellation's main stars from a spaceship (camera) 100 pc galactically outbound from Sol.
The Orion Trapezium Cluster is very important as the closest stellar nursery, harboring also an intermediate-mass black hole 🌌:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapezium_Cluster
intermediate-mass black hole 🌌:
I still wonder how those beasts eat and especially when.
Let BH mergers be out of ansatz, assume the BH mass-quivalent is >> than that of the incoming matter and make it a one-body prob with a Kerr BH at the center. "Kerr" because Schwarzschild is a little theoretical, a run-of-the-mile collapsar does have angular momentum.
An incoming object now makes it through the event horizon in finite eigentime. That's well known, freshman stuff. For an observer at asymptotically flat space however, it takes infinite time, thus it never happens.
I am aware that one can transform "away" the coordinate-singularity of an event horizon, but those singularity-free coords have very little to do with time as we know it as one – and special – leg of a tetrade.
According to Gauss' theorem however, it does not matter for Wheeler's hairs as recorded by that outside observer whether the incoming mass is a little outside or inside the event horizon, an integral over a full sphere big enough yields the same pull and angular momentum in both cases.
But the question remains when BH eat.
I use SIMBAD database.
There are 533 astronomical objects within 10 parsecs. 
N° | Name | Parallax | Visual magnitude | Spectral type