Anyone astronomer ? :-)

Hello,
I’m working for an scientific association in France and we have a little numeric planetarium.
I use Blender to render some full dome scene and I would like to create a simulation in Cycles of the “nearby” 300 light-years volume of our Sun (like Celestia). For that, I would need to import all the XYZ positions and magnitude of the stars (metaballs?) in this volume.
I think it would be a (little ?) modification of the molecular plugin with a stars instead the atoms but my knowledge of python is poor to transform this code.
I would know if someone have an interest to create this plugin ?

Sorry for my bad english.

Have a nice day (and night) !

Thank’s for your response.
I need to use the position and the intensity too, your code is interesting to begin (and to show the way) but I think I will have to put my hands in the engine !! :evilgrin: