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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DackBlackhawk" data-source="post: 1719855" data-attributes="member: 10803">WhateverThere is green in the spectrum of the sun as has been demonstrated in the articles by the astronomers and astrophysicists.  Fine, it looks yellow or white-yellow to our eyes.  It's not that important.  I wouldn't leave the table for a statement such as "LOOK, Green Star!"Realistic star system generation is still a matter of preference as opposed to cold, hard facts.  One reason we haven't found Earthlike extra solar planets yet is because our instruments are not precise enough to detect either the wobble generated by an earth-massed star or resolve an earthlike planet close to a star because the disk it would produce is too small or too dark for the precision of our current instruments to pick up.  There are new telescopes being built that will test that precision.  There are some in Chile which are simultaneously controlled and emulate a Much larger mirror, giving us the light gathering ability of a mirror measured in tens of meters instead of numbers of meters.  Also interferometers at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona are coming online, giving a huge increase in light gathering ability and disk precision.  The next generation space telescope after Hubble will blow Hubble away in its capabilities.  It's just a matter of time before we pick up earth sized planets in other systems.  Originally, even the Jupiter sized planets were beyond the precision of our instruments, and the first ones detected weren't confirmed until follow up observations with better instruments and techniques were made.A good book to look at on planet construction is a book called Moons and Planets by William Hartmann.  It's a college level text on the various theories of planetary development with lots of hard numbers and good physics.  It's dry but an informative read.  Good planetary generation systems are tricky to make, especially one that's easy to use and quick for DMs in a hurry.  I have never tried since it would be hard for me to make a good, objective one.</blockquote>

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