NoScream~SPARTA~ Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 AU Eve-Online measures distance in Kilometers (Km) and AU's AU is a read measurement based on distance. The distance of the EARTH to the SUN = 1 AU What is an Astronomical Unit? AU Or a Light Year ? ly 1 AU = 149,600,000 km = 92,960,000 miles or 490,800,000,000 feet = 8.317 light minutes 63,024 AU's = 1 ly (light-year) 1 Light Year = 63,024 AU Definition: An Astronomical Unit is the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun. It is a derived constant and used to indicate distances within a solar system. The Earth orbits at a distance of 1 AU from the Sun. Technical Definition: AU is short for Astronomical Unit and defined as: the radius of a Keplerian circular orbit of a point-mass having an orbital period of 2*(pi)/k days (k is the Gaussian gravitational constant). Since an AU is based on radius of a circular orbit, one AU is actually slightly less than the average distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 150 million km or 93 million miles). Historical Background: Tycho Brahe estimated the distance between the Sun and the Earth at 8 million kilometers (5 million miles). Later, Johannes Kepler estimated the AU was at 24 million kilometers (15 million miles). In 1672, Giovanni Cassini made a much better estimate by using Mars. By observing Mars from Paris and having a colleague, Jean Richer, also observe Mars at the same time in French Guiana in South America, Cassini determined the parallax of Mars. From that Cassini was able to calculate the distance from Earth to Mars, and then the distance from Earth to the Sun. Cassini calculated the AU to be at 140 million kilometers (87 million miles), which is lower, but very close to the modern day number. A light year, abbreviated ly, is the distance light travels in one year: roughly 9.46 × 1012 kilometers (or about 5.88 × 1012 miles). More specifically, a light year is defined as the distance that a photon would travel, in free space and infinitely far away from any gravitational or magnetic fields, in one Julian year (365.25 days of 86400 seconds each). Since the speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792,458 m/s, one light year is equal to 9,460,730,472,580,800 m, or about 9.46 pentameters. So if 1 Light Year = 63,024 AU and an AU is 92,960,000 miles. That makes a Light Year 5,878,883,360,000 Miles Thats 5 Trillion 878 Billion 883 Million 360 Thousand Miles GOT IT NOW !!! Or did I just Fry Your Brain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoScream~SPARTA~ Posted December 30, 2008 Author Share Posted December 30, 2008 A sample of a typical BLACK-OPS ship The REEDEMER can jump 2ly which is 63,024 AU x 2 = 126048 AU !!! this is why a ly Jump ship is so prized in eve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adder360~SPARTA~ Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 we need to find out the sort of ranges inbertween systems cos then you will know how meny systems you will be able to jump. i think some googleing is in order Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeno~SPARTA~ Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 au is the atomic symbol for GOLD, derived from the latin Aurum, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathrus~SPARTA~ Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 I don't play EVE but... I read this with interest but it gave me a headache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samurai~SPARTA~ Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 au is the atomic symbol for GOLD, derived from the latin Aurum, Best answer yet If we are asking about units, I love the definition of a parsec, and find the use of it in Star Wars '...made the Kerssel Run in less than 12 parsecs....' to be incorrect as a parsec is a unit of distance not time. Discuss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrNo~SPARTA~ Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 wait a minute..... isnt a parsec in the 12 days of Christmas? " and a parsec in a pear tree" ill have to check that one out later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoScream~SPARTA~ Posted December 30, 2008 Author Share Posted December 30, 2008 " and a parsec in a pear tree" This is the best !!!! Fools, fools all of you... I'll have ya walk the plank for this ! This was suppose to be a serious thread for ref. material, instead it's a Parsec away from oblivion. Warp drive online, star gate approaches ..... mad dogs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GySgt~SPARTA~ Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 Well lookie what I found just copy and past 2 links to what you might be asking about IDK take a look for youself. I DID http://www.eve-icsc.com/jumptools/jumpplan...amp;waypoints0= http://www.massively.com/tag/eve-fitting-tool/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoScream~SPARTA~ Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 Excellent find Gysgt, pinned on a new thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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