What's the difference between these 2 gate addresses?

[hxclespaulplayer]

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Lantea (Lanteas', on the right)

Is the top one the address for Lantea if dialled from earth or something (it looks like there are only 6 symbols on the bottom address)?

 

[Hermiod]

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Lantea (Lanteas', on the right)

Is the top one the address for Lantea if dialled from earth or something (it looks like there are only 6 symbols on the bottom address)?

Whatever the Stargate address for Lantea is (well was since it no longer has a Stargate) it would have six symbols for a position plus point of origin (Earth) plus the "dialling code" if you dialled in from outside of the Pegasus Galaxy.

 

[hxclespaulplayer]

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Lantea (Lanteas', on the right)

Is the top one the address for Lantea if dialled from earth or something (it looks like there are only 6 symbols on the bottom address)?

Whatever the Stargate address for Lantea is (well was since it no longer has a Stargate) it would have six symbols for a position plus point of origin (Earth) plus the "dialling code" if you dialled in from outside of the Pegasus Galaxy.

No idea why there are 2 different addresses on that site then?

 

[Romulan_spy]

It is probably the same address just written in the different gate symbols. The top is written in the hieroglyph style of the MW stargates, the bottom is written in the dots style of Pegasus gates.

 

[hxclespaulplayer]

It is probably the same address just written in the different gate symbols. The top is written in the hieroglyph style of the MW stargates, the bottom is written in the dots style of Pegasus gates.

Ah, that brings up a point - are the pegasus symbols unique (and therefore don't correspond to MW constellations) for that galaxy (so one address is how its dialed from pegasus, the other on the milky way end), or has someone just used the same keys to type it out in both the MW and PG fonts, *or* am I reading too much into all this? Obviously PG constellations aren't the same as MW ones, I'm just trying to figure out why 2 different addresses have been typed.

 

[PalmerEldritch]

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Lantea (Lanteas', on the right)

Is the top one the address for Lantea if dialled from earth or something (it looks like there are only 6 symbols on the bottom address)?

the top symbols are the milky way symbols to reach Atlantis. there are seven symbols because to reach Atlantis from a milky way gate you must dial a total of 8 chevrons. the first seven are the address of atlantis as featured on the site you linked to. your point of origin is the eighth symbol that you need to dial.

the second address is the address from a Pegasus gate to atlantis. you dial seven symbols total. the first six are the six on this site. the seventh is your point of origin.

by the way, that's a really cool site you linked to. thanks for the heads up!

 

[RoJoHen]

It is probably the same address just written in the different gate symbols. The top is written in the hieroglyph style of the MW stargates, the bottom is written in the dots style of Pegasus gates.

Ah, that brings up a point - are the pegasus symbols unique (and therefore don't correspond to MW constellations) for that galaxy (so one address is how its dialed from pegasus, the other on the milky way end), or has someone just used the same keys to type it out in both the MW and PG fonts, *or* am I reading too much into all this? Obviously PG constellations aren't the same as MW ones, I'm just trying to figure out why 2 different addresses have been typed.

One would think that the symbols are different to correspond to the different constellations in galaxies.

The only symbols that need to exist on both gates are the ones for Atlantis and Earth, since those are the only two gates that are capable of connecting between galaxies.

 

[David cgc]

The Pegasus symbols and the Milky Way symbols do not correspond, mostly because there are 36 Pegasus symbols (35, plus the point of origin) and 39 Milky Way symbols (38, plus the point of origin), and because a local address is always only six symbols, no matter which galaxy you're in. I imagine there's some sort of conversion algorithm in the Atlantis computer so you could get an eight-chevron address in the other galaxy's symbols to direct-dial a Pegasus gate from a sufficiently powered Milky Way gate or vice versa.

 

[Meredith]

Since they moved the address for Atlantis should be different.

 

[RoJoHen]

Since they moved the address for Atlantis should be different.

I'm fairly certain that it is. I think McKay said as much in that episode after they landed.

 

[Hermiod]

^It is, they tested the Stargate at the end of the episode.