Re: New and Updated Spheres

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:14:13 -0400, Edward Swing <blackdaggr@???.com> wrote:
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> >From: Charles Taylor <nerik@?????????.?????.??.uk>
> >To: SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com
> >Sent: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 6:32 am
> >Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] New and Updated Spheres
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> >Lots of interesting worlds there, thanks for posting these.
> >
> >On the subject of the Refuge Project - I noticed that you made Blaze size
> >D - I'm just wondering if that is a bit small? (size D worlds are about 
> >the size of the Moon or Mars IIRC).
> >
> >Charles
> >
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> I believe the size was given in one of the sources on Refuge. I'll have 
to dig thru them again.
>
>But it is a small sphere.
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>
Further thoughts on the size of Blaze - Refugespace is described as small, 
but we are not told how small - the smallest sphere whos size we are told 
is Nexspace from "The Broken Sphere" which, IIRC, is 1 days travel (100 
million miles) in diameter (I am deliberately ignoring Shadowspace). The 
three Radiant Triangle spheres have diameters in the 1000's of millions of 
miles.

The questions we need to ask are:

How far is Refuge from Blaze?
How big does Blaze look from Refuge.

For example:

We could have Refuge (actually Below) orbiting (say - these numbers are 
just for illustration) 60 million miles out (Inner Track 3), with Welcome 
orbiting 140 million miles out (Inner Track 7), so the diameter of 
Refugespace is 560 million miles (a little over one sixth the size of 
Realmspace, the smallest of the Radient triangle spheres).

If Blaze is size D, then it is at most 4000 miles in diameter, giving an 
angular size of .004 degrees as seen from Refuge.
In comparison, the Sun has an angular size of 0.5 degrees as seen from 
Earth, so in this case, Blaze as seen from Refuge is about 1/140th of the 
size of the Sun as seen from Earth.

Charles