Jan. 13th, 2021

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Okay, writing workshop went okay yesterday afternoon. Last night's architecture/urbanism discussion centering on Black involvement in architecture, design, urban (re)development, etc. was useful in seeing how equity principles can be made reality, as well as giving the wider public a look at projects being made reality right now.

This morning? I've started some laundry, gotten started on today's job search work, and planning to hope-scroll and doom-scroll through today's news as it evolves. Seems like we've got some hot stuff breaking on the exoplanet front.

NGTS-14Ab:

https://phys.org/news/2021-01-neptune-sized-exoplanet-ngts-survey.html

TOI-561b:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/world/super-earth-star-milky-way-scn-trnd/index.html

KOI-5Ab:

https://phys.org/news/2021-01-planet-koi-5ab-orbits-triple-star-skewed.html

Oh, and the count at exoplanet.eu as of today? 4404, split up between 3250 systems.

More on various topics later.
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Jed 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.
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Especially in this current context in the United States.

That is my reply to one Republican Congressman.

So...

Jan. 13th, 2021 10:19 pm
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...today was Portfolio Day according to a bunch of people on Twitter?

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