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dewlineCopying some semi-random notes over from my postings at TrekBBS on the subject...
Inspired by the upcoming revision of Stellar Cartography, I decided to pursue a question about a battle site from the Dominion War, the Avenal system from "Tacking Into the Wind". Working from Star Charts, I note that its X-Y coordinates were roughly -30 and 75 and both stars classify as B-type or close to it. Then, I went to Jed Whitten's StarMap site. Alpheratz/Alpha Andromedae seems to be a close match in colour, magnitude, and binary status. Z-axis number is -52.6212.
It is an awfully long way from there to Cardassia (HD 113337: -37.3967, 62.2453, 98.0499) along the Z-axis, though...
Additional thoughts:
Kochab (-37.0154, 88.7113, 82.0969) - Kora
Xi Cephei (-28.0644, 96.831, 13.0293) - Lazon
Alpha Lacertae (-19.8598, 99.6851, -11.762) - Kobheeria
Gliese 4.1/HD 123 (-29.993, 58.7604, -4.51693)- Prophet's Landing
As another way of "showing my work"...
http://whitten.org/index.php?x_c=-3...ormal&image_size=1500&max_line=0&trek_names=1
Adding a few more possibles, subject to debate and correction:
Psi-1 Draconis - Lamemda (F5IV-V; -13.8202, 59.9896, 37.0296)
Epsilon Cephei - Delavi (F0IV; -18.6888, 81.7812, 0.574564)
Woolley 9830/HD 221613 - Dopa (G0 E ~; -31.7979, 97.6186, -32.8805)
Inspired by the upcoming revision of Stellar Cartography, I decided to pursue a question about a battle site from the Dominion War, the Avenal system from "Tacking Into the Wind". Working from Star Charts, I note that its X-Y coordinates were roughly -30 and 75 and both stars classify as B-type or close to it. Then, I went to Jed Whitten's StarMap site. Alpheratz/Alpha Andromedae seems to be a close match in colour, magnitude, and binary status. Z-axis number is -52.6212.
It is an awfully long way from there to Cardassia (HD 113337: -37.3967, 62.2453, 98.0499) along the Z-axis, though...
Additional thoughts:
Kochab (-37.0154, 88.7113, 82.0969) - Kora
Xi Cephei (-28.0644, 96.831, 13.0293) - Lazon
Alpha Lacertae (-19.8598, 99.6851, -11.762) - Kobheeria
Gliese 4.1/HD 123 (-29.993, 58.7604, -4.51693)- Prophet's Landing
As another way of "showing my work"...
http://whitten.org/index.php?x_c=-3...ormal&image_size=1500&max_line=0&trek_names=1
Adding a few more possibles, subject to debate and correction:
Psi-1 Draconis - Lamemda (F5IV-V; -13.8202, 59.9896, 37.0296)
Epsilon Cephei - Delavi (F0IV; -18.6888, 81.7812, 0.574564)
Woolley 9830/HD 221613 - Dopa (G0 E ~; -31.7979, 97.6186, -32.8805)
I suspect that, as far as HIPPARCOS data could help them with that project, Geoffrey Mandel and his team tried to the best of their ability to stick to real stars as much as possible. (Some of the "landmarks" of Star Trek are still specific to that fictional universe's version of our Galaxy, regardless.)
Note: Edited to add in Memory Alpha, Wikipedia and SIMBAD links - 19 August 2018.
