I've had an idea to make a star jar with an accurate placement of stars within them. It would use LEDs for each star and would perhaps have a transparent plastic center column with branches that would hold the LEDs in the proper places and have the wiring within too. Otherwise, I was thinking of having different colored wires to represent different ranges of lightyears, with perhaps less than five lightyears being blue, between five and ten green, between ten and fifteen yellow, between fifteen and twenty orange, and between twenty and twenty-five red, greater than 25 black. Each of the LEDs would be linked to all the others with wires, only some being powered while most are attached to nonconductive points just to show distances between stars. Perhaps each LED could have a disc with the name of the star they represent on it, and each wire could have a label with the distance on it. I'm thinking either it would have a scale of one inch per lightyear or one centimeter per lightyear. It would all be within a plexiglass cylinder, maybe with a wooden base with a couple steps, polished dark red I think would look nice, and with a domed lid with hidden ultraviolet LEDs along the rim to provide that cool dispersed light effect that UV light make. If battery powered, batteries could be within the base, but I think I'd rather have an adapter for a wall outlet to provide the power supply. Maybe a dual system would be best, perhaps with rechargeable batteries and a charging system already built in. I don't know why anyone would want it to be mobile, maybe to put on a picnic table at night or something, but it would be cool to see at night. Maybe a gazebo with a three dimensional map of the stars would look rather cool. IDK, just some ideas, what does everyone think?
07 Jun 2016, 2:58 pm
