On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I found out today - or was reminded today, I'm not entirely sure as I've downloaded resources from the IAU on the subject of star names in the past year and then neglected to review them carefully - that in 2015, a star in Monoceros - HD 45652 - was named "Lusitânia", in connection with their Name ExoWorlds programme. The one known planet orbiting it is named "Viriato". For the purposes of the projects I'm working on with the Tranquility Press fanfic gang, it's in Klingon space as of 2240-2410.

I love that this astronomical naming process is picking up speed in my lifetime!

Is anyone having issues accessing stellarcatalog.com at the moment?

How difficult can it be to find a star at a particular set of X-Y coordinates in this galaxy - within our own Orion Arm - with a neighbour that's 0.67 pc/2 ly away?

More difficult than I expected.

So a new offshoot from my Tranquility Press fanfic map projects takes me rimward in the direction of Auriga, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Orion and so forth. The Hyades, Pleiades, the spinward side of Gorn-claimed space, rimward of the Klingons...and the Delta Triangle.

Created for the first animated Trek series episode "The Time Trap", it was a region known for the same kind of mysterious disappearances as Earth's Bermuda Triangle until Jim Kirk and company went digging around in the neighbourhood and found out where some of the vanishing spacecraft of multiple star nations across the centuries had ended up.

Based on material from Star Charts and Stellar Cartography, I picked out candidates for two of the three "anchor" stars of the Triangle, and now I'm working on filling in the surrounding neighbourhood with continued help from HYGMap.space...

Noting that, aside from Bellatrix, the other two stars I chose are not necessarily locked in. I'm open to alternative candidates.

I went looking and it turns out that Jérôme Lalande's star catalogue has been preserved and translated to English.

Having since discovered by such means that Lalande 8 - from John M. Ford's Star Trek novel The Final Reflection - is in fact a real star, I am now trying to find out what names or catalogue numbers that star is currently best known by. Any suggestions on the matter? Apparently, as of 1847, it was deemed to be in the constellation Cassiopeia?

I wanted Artaleirh and Augo in there. Seemed like, after adjusting for the smaller version of the known great powers, alpha Hydri and iota Centauri were the respective best fits, based on the text of The Empty Chair.

Are there any stars within 1-5 ly of a direct spline between GJ 9247 (Satterfeld) and UCAC2 12366750 (Colil)?

Yes, this is probably a question for players of Elite Dangerous at the moment, or someone who knows their way around Gaia Sky or other planetarium-software much better than I.

There's a thing from a favourite fanfic webcomic series that I want to work into the map.

Nailed down four more systems' host stars last night. I'm not entirely happy with the choices, mainly because the catalogue numbers available to use are not short enough and distinct enough. Numbers starting with GAIA DR3, APASS9, SKYM2, 2MASS and so on...and the SIMBAD database is very much a work in progress, perpetually playing catch-up with the new data - or old data finally data-entered after months to years' waiting - as it comes in.

I need to know which systems are closest to a direct sightline between LTT 3741 and HD 21539.

And the closer to LTT 3741's end of the flightline, the better?

LP 552-46 as the candidate host-star.

If you're wondering where to find it:

http://hygmap.space/index.php?select_star=10127957&select_center=1

Needed something close to where the Federation, Klingons and Romulans share a border. Somewhere that was relatively obscure in any case.

More later...