Early in the 23rd century, the United Planets Cruiser C57-D travels to the planet Altair IV, 16 light-years from the Earth, to discover the fate of an expedition sent 20 years earlier.

From deep space, Adams, Altaira, Robby, and the rest of the crew witness the destruction of Altair IV.

In the classic 1956 science fiction film, " Forbidden Planet ", the extinct race of advanced beings of the planet Altair IV are known as the " Krell ".

* Altair IV, the planet on which the film Forbidden Planet is set

During the preview of the movie when the sounds of the spaceship landing on Altair IV filled the theater, the audience broke out in spontaneous applause.

The Summer Triangle of Deneb, Altair, and Vega — α Cygni, α Aquilae, and α Lyrae — is easily recognized, as its three stars are all of the 1st magnitude.

The boat Bond uses — The Altair — was the name of the boat Amis and his wife used on holiday, whilst the Bond girl's fictitious colleagues, " Legakis " and " Papadogonas " were friends who helped Amis in Greece, whilst the doctor who treats Bond in Chapter two was named after Amis and Jane's own doctor.

The Great Machine on Altair 4 from the movie FORBIDDEN PLANET.

The 1956 science fiction film Forbidden Planet is set on Altair 4, a presumed planet of the star.

In 1977-1978, Lippincott published Packard's next two books in the same format, Deadwood City and The Third Planet from Altair.

Altair ( formerly known as the Lunar Surface Access Module, LSAM ) would have been the main transport vehicle for lunar-bound astronauts.

Satellite measurements made in 1999 with the Wide Field Infrared Explorer showed that the brightness of Altair fluctuates slightly, varying by less than a thousandth of a magnitude.

The angular diameter of Altair was measured interferometrically by R. Hanbury Brown and his co-workers at Narrabri Observatory in the 1960s.

Altair was later observed to be flattened by infrared interferometric measurements made by the Palomar Testbed Interferometer in 1999 and 2000.

This phenomenon, known as gravity darkening or the von Zeipel effect, was confirmed for Altair by measurements made by the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer in 2001, and analyzed by Ohishi et al.

The first BBSes used homebrew software, quite often written or customized by the SysOps themselves, running on early S-100 microcomputer systems such as the Altair, IMSAI and Cromemco under the CP / M operating system.

In 1975, MITS released Altair BASIC, developed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen as the company Micro-Soft, which grew into today's corporate giant, Microsoft.

The first Altair version was co-written by Gates, Allen, and Monte Davidoff.

The earliest models such as the Altair 8800 were often sold as kits to be assembled by the user, and came with as little as 256 bytes of RAM, and no input / output devices other than indicator lights and switches, useful as a proof of concept to demonstrate what such a simple device could do.

The first meeting was held in March 1975 in French's garage in Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California, on the occasion of the arrival in the area of the first Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems Altair microcomputer, a unit sent for review by People's Computer Company.

Created and edited by its members, it initiated the idea of the Personal Computer, and helped its members build the original kit computers, like the Altair.

It celebrates the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi ( represented by the stars Vega and Altair respectively ).

The Altair BASIC interpreter was developed by Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates with help from Monte Davidoff, using a self made Intel 8080 software simulator running on a PDP-10 minicomputer.

) Key concepts include what would come to be known as the Gaia hypothesis, pantheism, and a Christlike " world leader " living on the planet " Altair " ( or " Stellair "), who radiates spiritual guidance by means of telepathy.

The first commercial PC, the Altair 8800 ( by MITS ), used an Intel 8080 CPU with a clock rate of 2 MHz ( 2 million cycles / second ).

Instead, it provokes psychotic violence ( on the part of people like Becka Paulson, who kills her adulterous husband by fatally rewiring their TV, killing herself in the process ) and the disappearance of a young boy, David Brown, whose older brother Hilly teleports him to another planet, referred to as Altair 4 by the Havenites.

It was developed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the founders of Micro-soft, specifically for the Altair 8800 and it would fit in 4K of memory.

During a show put up by MITS, someone got hold of and copied a paper tape containing Altair BASIC.

Unlike the Apollo LM, Altair would have touched down in the lunar polar regions favored by NASA for future lunar base construction.

The Altair descent stage was to be powered by four RL-10 rocket engines that are used for the Centaur upper stage used on the Atlas V rocket.

Upon receiving clearance from Mission Control, the Altair undocks from the Orion and performs an inspection maneuver, allowing ground controllers to inspect the spacecraft via live TV mounted on Orion for any visible problems that would prevent landing ( on Apollo this was done by the Command Module Pilot ).

Competing machines such as the Altair 8800 generally were programmed with front-mounted toggle switches and used indicator lights ( red LEDs, most commonly ) for output, and had to be extended with separate hardware to allow connection to a computer terminal or a teletypewriter machine.

As Steve Wozniak, the creator of Integer BASIC and the only person who understood it well enough to add floating point features, was busy with the Disk II drive and controller and with Apple DOS, Apple turned to Microsoft, who was the BASIC vendor of choice after their success with Altair BASIC, and licensed a 10 KB assembly language version of BASIC dubbed " Applesoft.

The Arabs greatly increased the knowledge of astronomical cycles, and many of the star names that remain in common use today, such as Aldebaran, Altair, Betelgeuse, Rigel and Vega retain the legacy of their language.

Altair ( Alpha Aquilae, Alpha Aql, α Aquilae, α Aql, Atair ) is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the twelfth brightest star in the night sky.

Altair rotates rapidly, with a velocity at the equator of approximately 286 km / s.

A study with the Palomar Testbed Interferometer revealed that Altair is not spherical, but is flattened at the poles due to its high rate of rotation.

Altair is located 16. 7 light-years ( 5. 13 parsecs ) from Earth and is one of the closest stars visible to the naked eye.

Altair is a type-A main sequence star with approximately 1. 8 times the mass of the Sun and 11 times its luminosity.

Altair possesses an extremely rapid rate of rotation ; it has a rotational period of approximately 9 hours.

This rapid rotation forces Altair to be oblate ; its equatorial diameter is over 20 percent greater than its polar diameter.

False-color image of the rapidly rotating star Altair, made with the MIRC imager on the CHARA array on Mount Wilson Observatory | Mt.

realized that Altair would be rotationally flattened, they had insufficient data to experimentally observe its oblateness.

Altair is one of the few stars for which a direct image has been obtained.

In this image, North ( the direction towards the North Celestial Pole ) is up and East is left, and the white line is the rotational axis of Altair.

The name Altair has been used since medieval times.

Medieval astrolabes of England and Western Europe depicted Altair and Vega as birds.

The Koori people of Victoria also knew Altair as Bunjil, the Wedge-tailed Eagle, and β and γ Aquilae are his two wives the Black Swans.