Quote from: ChrisPachi on Oct 30, 2012, 04:44:38 AM
Quote from: SiL on Oct 27, 2012, 10:12:21 PM
Quote from: Eva on Oct 26, 2012, 06:36:57 AM
With that said - an outside camera traveling at the same speed as the ship, would just show the ship and the backdrop of thousands of remote stars, even at FTL speeds. No swooshing light effects like when the Falcon goes into hyperspace - the stars are waaaay to far away to display this effect. 
Doppler shift all up ins, which was actually in the script for Alien but not done in the effects -- stars ahead of you would appear bluer, stars behind redder.
I was thinking more about whether there would be any parallaxing evident if the camera was moving with the ship.There is math (projective geometry is the discipline I believe) that can tell you if an object of X distance would appear to move against a further object shot from a camera moving at Y speed.
How close would the nearest star have to be to a camera travelling in excess of twice the speed of light to appear to move within the frame?
I am off to nut this out... see you in 2018. 
You can try by yourself in Space Engine.
And you will be bored at all to notice that you actually don't seem to move.
Alpha Centauri , the closest star to earth is 4.37 light years away from us.
At twice the speed of light, you would still take 2.18 light years to reach it.
Imagine now that most of the stars you see in the sky are hundred light years away.
The background would seems absolutely static unless you timelapse it.
Lastly, the stars you see with a naked eye are for most the closest to us (with the exception of a handful superbrights stars) so even then stars would seem to "appear" along the way as you progress across a galaxy but, at that speed, the process would be very very very slow.
It takes roughly 8 minutes for the light to reach earth.
Go outside, do a 8 minutes walk and try to put this in perspective.
Pluto is 13 hours away from the sun at light speed. That's to tell just how close we are to our sun in the solar system.
And one of the farthest object of the Solar System, Sedna, has an average distance of 524 AU
It's about 72 hour (3 days) at light speed.
