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Alpha Centauri Orbits to Scale?
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[QUOTE="Warp, post: 6827084, member: 419869"] I sometimes get surprised by things that do not seem to exist in this world. For example, as far as I know, nobody has ever, during the entire history of photography, made a photographic time-lapse of lunar libration. There are plenty of computer renderings, but no photographic time-lapse showing the real thing. One would think that it's a topic interesting enough for at least someone to attempt, but apparently not. (If such a time-lapse exists, I have not found it.) Ok, maybe getting good-quality photographs of the Moon every night for an entire month is too difficult. However, sometimes things don't seem to exist that should be much, much simpler. Alpha Centauri is a rather interesting star system in that it's a triple star system, with two of the stars orbiting each other relatively close, and the third one orbiting them really, really far away. In order to get an idea of how far away, I would like to see a to-scale orbit diagram of the Alpha Centauri triple star system. If such a picture exists, I have been unable to find it. It baffles my mind a bit why not. Is our closest stellar neighbor being a triple star system such a boring subject that nobody has bothered even just drawing a diagram (at least one that's to-scale)? Well, considering how hard it is to find a diagram of the solar system orbits to-scale (they exist, but they seem to be quite a rarity) I suppose I shouldn't be that surprised. [/QUOTE]
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