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Entertaining accident: Decades ago, when Masao Okazaki was putting his Starfleet Museum site together, he assigned the name "Axolotl" to a planet orbiting Gliese 767A.

In 2019, the IAU and Mexico named the star HD 224693 "Axólotl" as part of that year's Name ExoWorlds event.

We have precedent in Star Trek for this sort of thing, thankfully, so I'm not worrying over it.

Current Mood: amused

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!

Current Mood: geeky

Having a little fun with the map projects before bed. Equuelus, Hercules, Sagitta, Corona Borealis, Aquila, that general neighbourhood. Places like Kitalpha, Ancha, Bunda, Libertas? Breen neighbourhoods!

Current Mood: nerdy

I've been reminded over on TrekBBS that there's ongoing medical fundraisers for two writers whose work on comic books and on Star Trek I've enjoyed reading and re-reading over the decades.

Mike W. Barr

Peter A. David

Current Mood: hopeful

I just found out via TrekBBS...

Current Mood: sad

I don't think that 42 Ursae Majoris is a good candidate for the Persephone system. It looks like a potential neighbour when you view the galaxy from above/below, sure...

Current Mood: nerdy

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.

Current Mood: sleepy

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

Interesting that the Hamalki might be living right on the Federation-Cardassian border.

Meantime, good night and good luck.

Current Mood: nerdy

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?

Current Mood: nerdy

So this was published in the Astronomical Journal this month:

https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad34d5

I found out via TrekBBS. As I noted in one of my replies: we still need to keep in mind that Star Trek is as much alt-history as space adventure. All those extra nebulae, the existence of ETI confirmed, and so on...

Current Mood: nerdy

Anyone here into Andorian language(s)?

I want to work up a world name. Or maybe five...

Current Mood: nerdy

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.