TREK: Stellar Cartography 2.0 Continued

In case you were wondering, based on my last posting on the subject...I'm okay with the new edition as a whole.

The Klingon map, I'm told, has had its name translations into thlingan Hol spruced up with help from Discovery Klingon translator Lieven Litaer, and has also been updated to note some of the systems whose existence was revealed in the first season of DSC, right along with the UFP quadrant-level and history maps. Most of the new DSC-related data points' placement makes sense overall. The rectifications of omissions from TOS, we can probably debate.

But that "Binary Stars"/Gamma Hydrae question still nags at me. I actually started fiddling with Gaia Sky to try to find a system close enough - "six lightyears" or two parsecs from γ Hyd - to fit the dialogue as written and performed on-air. Nothing so far, but a lot of stars in that GAIA DR2 database, even a truncated download.

(If you want to keep an eye on updates as they're announced, check this Twitter account: https://twitter.com/GaiaSky_Dev )

ASTRONOMY: Amusing Star Catalogue Acronyms

Minor amusement among the astronomical databases of the world this weekend: this acronym actually exists. The subject matter, white dwarf stars, is perfectly respectable. As is the lead investigator named in the title...who ought to be having starships named for them.

http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?LAWD

The first object noted in this catalogue, by the by, is apparently 49 lightyears directly "south" of Sol along the Z-axis.

LAWD 1 as profiled on Kevin Jardine's GAIA DR 2 Galaxy Map