SPACE/MAPS: HYGMap.space
Jan. 13th, 2021 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineJed Whitten's updated and revised and rebranded what used to be "Starmap", a Star Trek-inspired mapping utility, to better reflect the source data he's been using to make the site a reality as HYGMap.
The "HYG" in "HYGMap" stands for:
Hipparcos
Yale (Bright Star Catalogue)
Gliese
As you might have already deduced, those are the three primary star catalogues Jed's been working from.
And he's added some spreadsheet functionality here. Whichever star you select to focus the map "window" upon, the website will note distances of the other stars in that "window" from your chosen target star as well as distance-from-Sol. You can check links to SIMBAD - a global cross-referencing site for the world's star catalogues - as well as the Internet Stellar DataBase.
Star Trek-specific system names are included as an option, based upon the work in Star Trek: Star Charts and Stellar Cartography.
The "HYG" in "HYGMap" stands for:
Hipparcos
Yale (Bright Star Catalogue)
Gliese
As you might have already deduced, those are the three primary star catalogues Jed's been working from.
And he's added some spreadsheet functionality here. Whichever star you select to focus the map "window" upon, the website will note distances of the other stars in that "window" from your chosen target star as well as distance-from-Sol. You can check links to SIMBAD - a global cross-referencing site for the world's star catalogues - as well as the Internet Stellar DataBase.
Star Trek-specific system names are included as an option, based upon the work in Star Trek: Star Charts and Stellar Cartography.
