Recent content by dgroth

Hmmm, I see what you mean granpa...now with a few steps back and some thinking - I might have been a bit ambitious. Just for the laugh: my target was/is 1 million stars. But... I'm not going abandon this easily. Nothing easy is worth doing. Since I don't know the first thing about celestial...

I apperciate the calculation involved. But thanks for drawing my attention to this. However, I have access to a rather massive computer all for myself: IBM p6 with 64CPUs and 256GB of RAM. Anyway, I have already started working on a grid solution to distribute the calculations, if necessary...

Hello, I am new to this forum - and impressed with the posts. I have recently developed an addiction to astrophysics. I wish to do the following: - define a spherical "sandbox" with a radius of let's say 1, which I think of as "universe" - within that sphere I generate N number of points...