I planned to participate in #NaNoGenMo but I'm hitting a hard case of #CodersBlock and emotional #meh-ness.
Really trying not to beat myself up over this but ... ugh. 😐
But hey, instead of coding I do research on stuff that I might get to use for #NaNoGenMo if I get over the block, so that's something.
(Right now: Astronomical coordinate systems, ie. how to describe a things position in the galaxy. #nerd #space )
Hmmm, ok, so the milky way galaxy has a diameter of ~160000 lightyears and our sun is ~26000 ly from the galactic center.
So for objects on the far side of the center from us, our max distance is ~100000 ly, while on the opposite direction, the maximum is merely ~60000 lightyears.
Of course, if we go above and below the galactic plane, distances are much smaller.
Hm, hm, hm...
This might be trickier than I first thought.
*googles "constructing an elipsoid"*
*googles "intersection line elipsoid"*
...
Ok, I might be overengineering this.
*googles "How do elipsoids work"*
#WhatMath