Before anything, I'm not certain this is the right place to put it, but it's aurora related so... Move if there's a better place. With that said:
So I recently(-ish) purchased a neat program called universe sandbox. Basically a "piss around with physics" game.
Anyway, I decided to try rendering some of my aurora generated systems with it. My first try was Ross 248 (I randomly chose a system, probably good that it was an easy one as this is my first serious try creating a system).
To Aurora it looks like this:
I got the star as close as I could (I think the luminosity ended up being slightly different), plopped the planet and the asteroid field in place and it looks like this.
First one, a long shot with no background to show the system (asteroids don't show up well against the milky-way backdrop):
Ross 248A I
Ross 248
Ok, so it's not very impressive atm, I did end up with an easy system. And it looks much better in motion. But it's a start
Also, the yellow line is a tail to show the motion of the planet, I didn't turn it off before taking the first screenshots but did for the last.
I'll post up my future attempts if anyone is interested?
Edit: For comparison to the aurora pic: