Star&Orbit

Celestial Architect Spreadsheet 1.3.1

Sun(s) & Planetary Orbit
Enter your figures in the yellow boxes, the rest is automatically calculated.
Blue text indicates rough approximations

Star A
M Mass of your Star(s) 1.98844E+30 (kg) 1.000

Type G star. Yellow

Derived stats of your Star(s)

Surface Temperature 5,778.0 (K) 1.000
L luminosity 3.846E+026 (W) 1.000
D diameter 1,391,000 (km) 1.000

Apparent size of your Star(s) from your Planet 1.000

Contribution to insolation 1.000

Your Planet's Position

R max distance to your Planet (semi-major axis) 149,597,871 (km) 1.000 (in A.U.s)

Habital Zone Beginning 142,635,973 (km) 0.953 (in A.U.s: 1 = the average
Habital Zone End 205,488,479 (km) 1.374 (in A.U.s)

The habitable zone is a range in which some sort of planet can hav

Length of Years & Days

Length of your Planet's day 24.000 (hours) 1.000 (1= an Earth day)

T your Planet's orbital period, i.e. “year” seconds hours Earth days
31568120 8768.922 365.37176

Heat & Light

I Combined insolation 1.000 (1= the amount of heat en

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If Insolation isn't pretty close to “1”, liquid

This figure is much less reliable if you've

A Albedo 30.0% (0%=completely non-reflec

Taken from the Albedo Sheet

Greenhouse Effect 0.128 (the amount of heat retain

Thicker atmopsheres will tend to have a

Kelvin Celsius Fahrenheit

Your Planet's average temperature 288.03 14.88 58.78
Earth's mean surface temperature 288 14.85 58.73
Boiling point of Water at 1 atm pressure 373.15 100 212
Freezing point of Water 273.15 0 32

These calculations were mostly taken from this extremely helpful website:
http://www.cix.co.uk/~morven/worldkit/index.html

Any errors are probably mine

--J. W. Bjerk

To increase readability, and thus accuracy,

These variables are used for most of the formulas on this sheet

AU (km)
149597870.692

Sol's Mass (kg)

1.988435E+030

Sol's Surface Temperature (K)

5778

Sol's Luminosity (W)

3.85E+026

Sol's Radius (km)

695500

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Aproximate
Star B
0 (kg) 0.000 (1= Sol's Mass. This chart assumes a main-sequence star)

Set to “0” if you only want one star

0.0 (K) 0.000 (1= Sol's Surface Temperature)

0 (W) 0.000 (1= Sol's Luminosity)
0 (km) 0.000 (1= Sol's Diameter)
Based on metal content, actual stars may vary 20%-30%

0.000 (1= the apparent size of Sol from the Earth, i.e. how big it looks)

0.000 (1= the amount of heat energy the Earth recives from Sol)

The following calculations unrealistically assume that the second star is in the same place as the first.

(in A.U.s: 1 = the average distance between the Earth & Sol)

ome sort of planet can have liquid water.

(1= an Earth day)

Your Planet's days

365.371758

(1= the amount of heat energy the Earth recives from Sol)

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n't pretty close to “1”, liquid water is probably impossible

much less reliable if you've added a second star, due to the complicated orbital relationships, that this chart makes no attempt to model.

(0%=completely non-reflective. ~30%=earth. 100%=perfectly reflective.)

e Albedo Sheet

(the amount of heat retained by the atmosphere. 0= no atmosphere. 0.1= earth-like. Must be less than 1)

psheres will tend to have a stronger greenhouse effect

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sequence star)

.e. how big it looks)

ves from Sol)

e as the first.

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art makes no attempt to model.

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Celestial Architect Spreadsheet 1.3.1

Planet Size & Moon Stuff
Enter your figures in the yellow boxes, the rest is automatically calculated.
Blue text indicates rough approximations

Your Planet
g Surface Gravity of your Planet 9.8 (m/s²) 1.000

R Radius of your Planet 6,371.0 (km) 1.000

P Density of your Planet 5.515 (g/cm³) 1.000

M mass of your Planet 5.9742E+024 (kg) 1.000
Surface Area of your Planet 510,064,472 (km²) 1.000

Tides caused by your Moon 1.00

Your Moon
m mass of your Moon 7.348266E+22 (kg) 0.0123

r Radius of your Moon 1735.5 (km) 0.2724

p Density of your Moon 3.356 (g/cm³) 0.609

Surface Area of your Moon 37,847,682 (km²) 0.0742
Gravity of your Moon 1.627 (m/s²) 0.1658

Your Moon's Position

Roche's Limit (minimun distance) 18419.6 (km) 2.8912
Your moon should be further than Roche's limit or the stress o

Hill Sphere (maximum distance) 748,361.0 (km) 117.4637

Your moon should be not be beyond this, or it's orbit would like

Max Distance between your Moon & your Planet 384,782.9 (km) 60.396

Apparerent size of your Moon from Surface 1894.0814327 (arc sec) 0.999

seconds hours
Rotational Period of your Moon 2,361,273 655.909

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Note:Because these calculations assume planets & orbits are completely round,
and because of the extremely large and small numbers which may get rounded off by the spreadsheet,
some results will not be precisely to the last iota. But they should be very close.

Planetary mass/radius chart from: Planetary Radii across Five Orders of Magnitude in Mass and Stellar Insolationhttp://w

To increase readability, and thus accuracy,

These variables are used for most of the formulas on this sheet

Mass of the Earth (kg)

5.97E+024

Mean Radius of the Earth (km)

6371

Density of the Earth (g/cm³)

5.5153

Gravitational Constant
0.0000000000667

Center to Center Distance from Earth to Moon (km)

384400

Density of the Moon (g/cm³)

3.3464

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(1= Earth's gravity)

See chart for reasonable mass/radius values ---->
(1= Earth's radius)

(1= Earth's density)

(1= Earth's mass)
(1= Earth's surface area)

(1= Tides like Earth- assuming similar land formation)

(1= Earth's mass, 0.0123= Luna's mass)

(1= Earth's radius, 0.2724= Luna's radius)

(1= Earth's density. 0.608= Luna's density)

(1= Earth's surface area, 0.075= Luna's surface area)
(1= Earth's gravity, 0.166= Luna's gravity)

(1= Earth's radius)

Roche's limit or the stress of gravity would break it apart

(1= Earth's radius)

d this, or it's orbit would likely not be stable long term.

(1= Earth's radius, 60.3961= Moon's distance)

(1= the size of Luna as viewed from Earth)

Earth days Your Planet's Days

27.330 27.330

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Celestial Architect Spreadsheet 1.3.1

Albedo
Enter your figures in the yellow boxes, the rest is automatically calculated.
Blue text indicates rough approximations

Clouds
Cloud Cover 49.0% The fraction of the planet's surface that is obscured by c
Suggested value: 49.0% Assuming a very earthlike atmospere. Planets with thick

Average Cloud Albedo 45.5% How reflective the clouds are. Ranges from 0.4 for thin c
Total Albedo contribution from Clouds 22.3% The total amount of light reflected back into space by the

Ocean Area 70.0% The fraction of the planet covered by oceans. 0% to 100

Frozen Ocean 7.0% average of summer and winter Earth = ~7%

Unfrozen Ocean 93.0%

Land Area 30.0% The fraction of the planet covered by land. Earth = 29.2

Snow & Land Ice 17.0% Average of summer and winter Earth = ~17%
Vegetation 43.0% Earth = ~43%
Sand & Rock 40.0% Earth = ~40%

Total Coverage Albedo value

Frozen Ocean 4.9% 35.0% You don't need to change these unless y
Unfrozen Ocean 65.1% 7.0%
Snow & Land Ice 5.1% 55.0%
Vegetation 12.9% 20.0%
Sand & Rock 12.0% 28.0%

Total albedo 30.0% (0%=completely non-reflective. ~30%=earth. 100%=perf

Albedo ranges for various terrains

Range Typical Value

Coniferous forest/taiga 08% to 15% 12%

Deciduous forest 15% to 18% 17%
Green Grass 25% 25%
Savanna 17% to 19% 18%

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Cropland 15% to 25% 20%
Desert 26% to 29% 28%
Generic vegetation 20% 20%
Open water 06% to 08% 07%
Sea Ice 32% to 38% 35%
Land ice/snow 42% to 85% 55% for old snow/permanent polar caps

Assumptions:
Clouds reduce the incident light over all terrains types equally. This is a simplication.
All vegetation is treated as generic. Another simplification.

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e planet's surface that is obscured by clouds in the atmosphere. Earth ~ 50%

earthlike atmospere. Planets with thicker or thinner atmospheres will vary from suggestion.

e clouds are. Ranges from 0.4 for thin cloud cover to 0.8 for thick
of light reflected back into space by the clouds.

e planet covered by oceans. 0% to 100%. Earth = 70.8%

mer and winter Earth = ~7%

e planet covered by land. Earth = 29.2%

mer and winter Earth = ~17%

You don't need to change these unless you have something specific in mind, like a different kind of vegetation

non-reflective. ~30%=earth. 100%=perfectly reflective. Used on the Star&Orbit sheet)

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w/permanent polar caps

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