action,target,duration rotate,Sun,0 fly,Right,0 meshes,all,hide meshes,sun,show wait,,3 text,The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars contains more than 300 thousand stars from Gaia EDR3 within 100 parsecs (over 300 light years).,12 text,This web application contains about 100 thousand of these stars supplemented with about 1300 additional stars to provide a complete set of brighter nearby stars.,12 wait,,3 bottomtext,At first glance this might seem to be an almost featureless ball of stars surrounding a tiny yellow dot representing our Sun.,10 bottomtext,But in fact there are many stars that are part of coherent groups near our Sun that are worth a visit. These stars move together and probably have common origins.,0 wait,,2 fly,Sun,10 bottomtext,This yellow dot represents the Sun.,4 bottomtext,"The most famous and prominent of our neighbouring regions is an extended star cluster, the Hyades, that consists of hundreds of stars.",0 wait,,2 rotate,Ain,5 wait,,2 fly,Ain,5|15 wait,,2 bottomtext,,0 stars,all,hide stars,C1,show spin,,15 wait,,2 stars,all,show wait,,2 bottomtext,There is another smaller cluster in our galactic neighbourhood called the Coma cluster that lies in the direction of the ancient constellation Coma Berenices.,0 wait,,2 rotate,12 Com,5 wait,,2 fly,12 Com,10|18 wait,,2 bottomtext,,0 stars,all,hide stars,C2,show spin,,15 wait,,2 stars,all,show wait,,2 bottomtext,And a very small but dense knot of stars in the southern sky called the Eta Chamaeleontis association.,0 wait,,2 rotate,eta Cha,5 wait,,2 fly,eta Cha,8|7 wait,,2 bottomtext,,0 stars,all,hide stars,C5,show spin,,15 wait,,2 stars,all,show wait,,3 bottomtext,"In addition to these clusters, there are numerous more distributed groups of stars that astronomers have called moving groups, again probably with common origins.",10 bottomtext,"Perhaps the most famous of these is the Ursa Major moving group, part of the star collection not far from the Sun known in some countries as the Big Dipper, and others as the Plough.",0 wait,,2 rotate,78 UMa A,5 wait,,2 fly,78 UMa A,10|10 wait,,2 bottomtext,,0 stars,all,hide stars,C6,show spin,,15 wait,,2 stars,all,show wait,,2 bottomtext,"There is another group of a similar size just beyond Bellatrix, and near the bright blue star 32 Orionis.",0 wait,,2 rotate,TYC 700-1877-1,7 fly,TYC 700-1877-1,10|7 wait,,2 bottomtext,,0 stars,all,hide stars,C4,show spin,,15 wait,,2 stars,all,show wait,,2 bottomtext,There is also a large extended group of stars visible in the southern sky called the Tucana-Horologium association near the spectacular blue star Achernar.,0 wait,,2 rotate,Achernar,4 wait,,2 fly,Achernar,5|15 wait,,2 bottomtext,,0 stars,all,hide stars,C3,show spin,,15 wait,,2 stars,all,show wait,,4 text,There is so much more of our local neighbourhood that we’d love to show you!,6 text,"But that will have to wait for another time. For now, you can fly to your favourite nearby stars and read the help text in the menu items.",10 text,"Thank you for watching this presentation.",10