Hyperspace....how fast is it?

Although in ST V:The Final Frontier, they travel to the centre of the Galaxy in a very short space of time.

Yeah, but that movie has so many other problems, that's probably the least of them.

 

1 light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles. I don't have a calculator handy to multiply by 6.

The Proxima/Alpha Centauri triple system is our nearest neighbor at 4.3 lightyears, so it looks like the Falcon can go that far in less than an hour.

 

Basically, the speed of a hyperdrive is measured in classes. The Millennium Falcon had a hyperdrive class of 0.5. Standard Imp warships (and Rebel X-wings) have a hyperdrive class of 1, leaving Han twice as fast as them, so he could outrun them through hyperspace. According to X-wing: Rogue Squadron, you build up momentum in realspace, and then keep it through hyperspace, i.e. if you're travelling at full throttle when you enter hyperspace, then you travel at the top speed of your hyperdrive, and etc.

A parsec is simply a measure of distance. On parsec equals approsimately 3.26 light-years.

But, back to the movies, you can see by all the stars turning into lines that it's damn fast.

 

Considering the fact that the Star Wars galaxy is roughly the same size as the Milky Way, and Hyperdrive allows ships to cross their galaxy in under a month, very fast. Definitely faster than Warp-drive, at any rate, which takes decades to cross the Milky Way. Don't let any rabid trekkie tell you differently, either.

 

Actually, Trek V is something of a sore spot among Trekkers. Some tend to embrace it wholesale, others (like me) tend to treat it like the embarrasing cousin no one owns up to. Still others like to pretend it never even happened. But all of them who are take time to do math know that the middle of the galaxy thing is ridiculous. But any Trekker worth his salt will tell you that nothing the Federation has can cross the galaxy in a month. Never happen. (Unless you get into that Warp 10 stuff, which I always thought was kinda hokey,)

 

Another prerspective, according to TNG tech guide, Picard's Galaxy class Enterprise had a high cruise of approx 2,000 X lightspeed. This means the Falcon is about 500 times faster which would give the EU hyperdrive of about 250.

 

I believe Star Trek V isn't even canon in official ST continuity. Nice policy, huh?

 

The Star Wars galaxy is about 120000 light years across. The Milky Way is slightly smaller than that, I believe.

 

Our Milky Way is approx 100,000 ly across. The central bulge is 3,000 ly from top to bottom, and the disk of the spiral arms averages 1,000 ly in thickness.

Our Sun is just about 28,000 ly from the center and takes about 200 million years to complete one lap around the gaalxy at roughly 500 million miles and hour.

The most widely accepted figure for the number of stars is 100 billion, but some estimates have been as high as 400 billion. Awhile ago I read an article that suggested our galaxy may be bar shaped in the center but I have heard nothing on it since.

FYI.