ACTUAL QUADRANTS

Republican_Man · **Sat Apr 24, 2004 5:13 pm ACTUAL QUADRANTS**

Is the Galaxy ACTUALLY divided into Quadrants? If so, what are the Quadrants? I like the ST ones, personally...
And also, if anyone has a map of the Star Trek Galaxy divided into Quadrants with each quadrant labeled, please post it here.

syd2002 · **Sat Apr 24, 2004 7:24 pm**

It probobley is, but not named as they are in star trek. There names are probobley like East, West, North, and South quadrent.

Republican_Man · **Sat Apr 24, 2004 8:42 pm**

But there can't be...There is no North, South, East, or West...Or is there? I'm not sure, but I think there might have been studies that say that the Galaxy is round, so...

Arellia · **Sat Apr 24, 2004 8:47 pm**

Upper-right-hand, Delta. Bottom-right, Beta. Top-left corner, Gamma. Bottom-left, Alpha.

I don't have a picture, but this is the best I could describe from my trek atlas...as for in real life, I'm not sure if there are quadrants or not...

Puck · The Texan Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 5596

Go to this site and take your pick of maps:

http://www.stdimension.de/int/Cartography/Maps.htm

here is a basic map

there are other ones too though

PrankishSmart · **Sun Apr 25, 2004 12:37 am**

Some things in trek are the same as real life. Like the placement of Earth in our galaxy is the same, and the diameter of the galaxy is about 100,000LY. But I have never heard of alpha, delta, gamma and beta put into real science.

Oliver · **Sun Apr 25, 2004 2:00 am**

Our galaxy, called the Milky Way, is actually a circular disk contain about 100 billion stars with a diameter of about 100000 light years. In the center, there is a higher concentration of stars and therefor exhibits a bulge. This part of the Milky Way is much brighter than the rest. To orientate, scientists have definded a North Galactic Pole and a South Galactic Pole (the top of of the disk or the bottom). See image below of a plan view taken from the Galactic North Pole.

Furthermore, due to differential rotation of the disk, a galaxy exhibits different spirals arms; also called spurs. See image below of differential rotation.

After nearly 50 years of intensive study, astronomers still cannot clearly deduce the exact shape of our galaxy in terms of how many arms this pinwheel-shaped galaxy has.

We know that the Sun is on the edge of what is probably a 'spur' called the Orion Spur which seems to merge with the Perseus Spiral arm towards the constellation Cygnus. The Perseus Arm is the one just outward from the Sun's location in the Galaxy about 700 to 1000 parsecs from us. Beyond the Perseus Arm, there may be a more distant one, but the arms become less distinct in the outer galaxy zone.

A list of the Milky Way Spiral Arms follows, sorted from outside to inside near our solar neighborhood in the Galaxy:

The Milky Way is not divided into quadrats. This is completely fictional and only exists in the world of Star Trek.

Morphy · Forum Ogre Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 3858

Quadrants, the way Star Trek has them represented, is so.....2D. For a show about space, they use a map that is a 2D flat representation of space.

Sonic74205 · **Sat May 29, 2004 4:35 pm**

True it's like when a ship is in a battle and there surrounded and they say THERES NO WAY OUT

but they never think of going up or down

tut tut tut

Starbuck · **Sat May 29, 2004 9:03 pm**

This is true, and its rather anoying, Space isn't two dimensional its three dimentional, and that should be taken into concideration.

Voyager` · **Sun May 30, 2004 12:15 am**

true it is three dimentional but it is also pry true that the ship couldnt just all of a sudden go straight up or down as well

Oliver · **Sun May 30, 2004 2:03 am**