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You might want to take a look at this warning:

https://verushka70.dreamwidth.org/121513.html

Current Mood: worried

I finally learned about data accuracy grading in SIMBAD a couple of nights ago. They have a five-level scale currently, going from A (best) to E (worst), and that letter is usually at the back end of the "Spectral type:" line item in any given star's profile data. For example, "F5V C". "F5 E" for another.

Of course, I'm making do with the data I have and the published and aired location data from the episodes and movies of the various branch series of Star Trek here...

Current Mood: nerdy

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.

Excerpt from star map designed by Dwight Williams for the Edge of Midnight fanfiction project.

Excerpt from star map designed by Dwight Williams for the Edge of Midnight fanfiction project.

Current Mood: nerdy
Current Location: Home-for-now

So I thought that V442 Ursae Majoris might be a good candidate for Amleth (Memory Alpha) (Memory Beta). Five stars in the system and all that?

Turns out that it's a bit further rimward than I want for it.

I think I'm just going to settle for something close to the published X-Y coordinates. If anyone here knows of something good enough...?

Current Mood: nerdy
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: Sunday Magazine on CBC Radio

Crossed these off the to-do list today:

Gon'Cra
Deep Space 3
Starbase 514
24 Aquarii
Jod'Cor
Mivic
Huranzi
Latroci
Septimus

Current Mood: accomplished

A sense of what I'm working on for fun right now.

https://mastodon.social/@DEWLine/113181955177986765

Current Mood: nerdy
Current Music: Sunday Magazine on CBC Radio

Made some more map progress tonight. Trying to keep sector boundaries clear in my brain, and it's tougher than usual. I'll try to post a more visual update tomorrow night.

Meanwhile, it's back to work in the morning.

Good night and good luck.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Home-for-now

Two bits of work in progress:

Current Mood: nerdy

Need to make a note that this is a thing I'm working on in between everything else.

This is the story it's going to support:

https://intheraptorsclaws.wordpress.com/

Good night, and good luck.

Current Mood: sleepy

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.

Current Mood: sleepy

I think I've got most of the key locations for Edge of Midnight nailed down. While I expect my contributions to that project to continue at a more relaxed pace now, I am stepping up efforts to support a historical fanfic work covering the Earth-Romulan War of 2156-2161: In the Raptor's Claws.

https://intheraptorsclaws.wordpress.com/

All the Triangle systems from FASATrek are matched up to host stars. There's a couple of neutron stars or singularities or what have you left to decide "altitudes" on the Z-axis for, but that's it for the most part. Maybe I end up adding in things from some of the video games?

Current Mood: busy

All but three of the Triangle region star systems from FASATrek now have host stars matched to them for Edge of Midnight purposes. The remaining three are ~~Stork's Rest, Altharra and Passarra's Dream~~.

Current Mood: accomplished

Still fiddling with details here and there. The Imperial Klingon States, R'o, Voll, and so on...

Back to work on the day job and stuff for now...

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: The Current on CBC Radio

Update!

Fenris and Soroya and R'o and Deerlam and Mantiev (among others) are driving me batty!

Current Mood: busy

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.

Current Mood: busy

My ego got a bit of a boost just now:

https://bsky.app/profile/davidmack.bsky.social/post/3kl3ozbfbzv2z

Strongly recommending you read Star Trek: Picard - Firewall by David Mack as soon as you can.

Some additional reasons for doing so mentioned here:

https://bsky.app/profile/davidmack.bsky.social/post/3kl472iyerk2f

Current Mood: touched

On morning break from work at the moment.

Still moving along in fits and starts, night by night. My spreadsheet of star lists is running to 22 "sheets" in the "notebook" now.