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When you're down and searching for a way out; lucky for this girl she has her own starship. When the world's at your fingertips, I bet she won't be sad for long. 🙂 My own artwork, "Ruminating a route, in blue".

#art #spaceart #scifi #scifiart #starmap #maps #sciencefiction #spaceopera #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

This week we covered the #astronomy of the #constellation #Centaurus — which meant we got to visit with our friend Claudius (!!) Ptolemy!

What does this one look like to you??

Find out our first impressions and learn more about this constellation here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/centaurus-cosmic-background/

#AstroDon #IAU #Stars #StarMap #Space #Science #STEM

📷 : https://www.iau.org/static/public/constellations/gif/CEN.gif

I've never really made fan art, but
TungstenVee's stuff is just too good! I had to make something!

I've recently done something similar so I got inspired by the portable star map here:
https://bsky.app/profile/tungsteneevee.bsky.social/post/3klzz7ejm3k2n

Also go read the Space Vees comic everyone!
https://spacevees.thecomicseries.com/

Seriously tho. Sci-fi and Eevees: I'm sold. But seeing all the attention put into the world and all the small details in every post makes me shed a little worldbuilding tear.

I also plan on modelling one of those sexy ships between my projects. So stay tuned for that!

#b3d #3dart #scifi #starmap #fanart

A slightly left side 3D render of a portable star map with a large screen on the top and a smaller touch screen in the bottom and an orange handle sticking out to its left. It has two red flip buttons and a black dial. The top half of it is shiny grey metal, the bottom half is black and there is a long cable sticking out of it's upper part above the larger screen. It is resting on a black plastic platform.

A slightly right side 3D render of a portable star map with a large screen on the top and a smaller touch screen in the bottom and an orange handle sticking out to its left. It has two red flip buttons and a black dial. The top half of it is shiny grey metal, the bottom half is black and there is a long cable sticking out of it's upper part above the larger screen. It is resting on a black plastic platform.

A mostly top-down 3D render of a portable star map with a large screen on the top and a smaller touch screen in the bottom and an orange handle sticking out to its left. It has two red flip buttons and a black dial. The top half of it is shiny grey metal, the bottom half is black and there is a long cable sticking out of it's upper part above the larger screen. It is resting on a black plastic platform.

A mostly reddish and shiny metal showcase of the portable starmaps with the sign "Ohmatech" in the back lit in orange. The basic grey model is in the front in the middle. Coloured variants are behind it in a half circle ranging from red to purple in all colours of the rainbow.

A family portrait in the night sky!

To learn more about each of these #GreekMyth characters, check out:

Cassiopeia: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/cassiopeia-myths-and-retconstellations/

Andromeda: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/andromeda-myths-and-retconstellations/

Cepheus (except, we kinda didn't really talk about Cepheus...): https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/cepheus-myths-and-retconstellations/

📷 :https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sidney_Hall

#Astronomy #GreekMythology #Art #Family #Andromeda #Cassiopeia #Cepheus #StarLore #StarMap #Space #Mythology

Star map drawing by Sidney hall showing a woman (Andromeda) in a red dress and in wrist shackles seeming to be falling backward. The image also shows key stars in the constellation along with two other constellations (Gloria Frederici and Triangula).

Star map drawing by Sidney hall showing a woman (Cassiopeia) sitting on a thrown fixing her hair. The image also shows key stars in the constellation along with the borders of other constellations.

Star map drawing by Sidney hall showing a man (Cepheus) in a crown and with a scepter. The image also shows key stars in the constellation along with the borders of other constellations.

#Astronomy question: is there still a debate over how far from Sol #Mira AKA #OmicronCeti is?

Asking for a #starmap project I'm working on.

Life is as winding as the lanes of hyperspace itself sometimes...at least that's what they'd say in this space-operatic universe. 😀🌌 My own artwork, "Paths to the stars".

#art #MastoArt #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #scifi #sciencefiction #spaceopera #hyperspace #spaceflight #FTL #fasterthanlight #galaxy #map #starchart #starmap #maps

Finally getting off my ass to write a starmap generator of my own in python, because I'm a weirdo who wants a very particular kind of starmap.

That is, a graph (in the mathematical sense) of star systems that are generated randomly in 3D space - but in accordance with a density distribution function - with edge weights according to their "jump drive distance" which can vary somewhat from their euclidean distance in the initial 3D space, but are limited to a reasonable local neighborhood. I'm hoping the output will be in graphML so I can use existing tools to render sections of the map for printing.

Yes, I'm aware that this is an absurdly ambitious project for someone with my level of programming experience.
Yes, I'm aware that a map generated from 3D space is unlikely to flatten onto a page nicely.

But who else is going to do this? "Be the change you want to see in the world"... 😹

#python #SciFi #starmap #programming

#Gameplay Update

#StarWars #KnightsoftheOldRepublic

Done with #Tatooine so here's a quick tip for everyone!

https://youtube.com/shorts/vWmxOv0hXTY?si=iPjtnrAcigJjNcw5

Gameplay Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH9X4m3s2fceJ31enG77ywbAzqI6d2Eql

#TuskenRaider #Anchorhead #Jawa #StarMap #KraytDragon #Krayt

Can data science help decode 3,100-year-old “Ramesside star clocks”?

Ancient Egyptian astronomical texts are difficult to interpret. Computer modeling might help.

https://insidetheperimeter.ca/can-data-science-help-decode-3100-year-old-ramesside-star-clocks

#astronomy #datascience #ancientegypt #Ramesside #star #clocks #map #starmap #time #timekeeping #nightsky #orion #sirius #historyofscience #archeology #temples #tombs #sarcophagus #astrodon #research #STEM

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Archaeologists have discovered a 2,400-year-old stone map of the night sky in Italy. The map shows 29 stars carved on a circular stone, including Orion, Scorpius and Pleiades. The map is very accurate, except for one mysterious star that might have been a supernova or a black hole. 🌠🌠🌠

#starmap #ancientastronomy #supernova

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/2400-year-old-map-found-in-italy-accurately-depicts-night-sky-and-a-mysterious-star/ar-AA1m7vO3

WRITER FUEL: Is this carving part of an ancient star map? Researchers disagree.

https://www.limfic.com/2024/01/15/writer-fuel-is-this-3000-year-old-carving-part-of-a-star-map/

#LimFic #LiminalFiction #WriterFuel #Writers #Authors #WritersofMastodon #StoryIdeas #StarMap #Carving

ancient carving might be a star map - Archaeologist Federico Bernardini (left) and astronomer Paolo Molaro at the Castelliere di Rupinpiccolo near Trieste in northeastern Italy, with what may be one of the oldest star maps ever discovered. (Image credit: Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF))

Someone's map from ToughSF inspired me to try my hand at making something in a similar style.

All the names are merely references to an old Star Ruler 2 playthrough, unfortunately any sort of my own setting is still in very deep snippet and idea stage. Good practice nontheless.

#map #starmap #vector #space #scifi #systemsearcher

#Pyro IV is a rocky 'Mercury-like' #StarCitizen protoplanet. According to the #Starmap it is defined as a 'protoplanet', while being into an orbit around the gas giant Pyro V, which makes it per definition one of its natural satellites.
https://starcitizen.tools/Pyro_IV

Cosmography archives - 1948

The Skalnaté Pleso Atlas of the Heavens, by Antonín Bečvář

A set of sixteen beautiful, colorful, exquisitely precise celestial charts covering the entire sky.

📷 chart II, centered on the Perseus constellation

❓ can you spot the Andromeda Galaxy

More infos:
⭐ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skalnate_Pleso_Atlas_of_the_Heavens
⭐ https://sandandstars.co.za/an-observing-table-full-of-treasures
⭐ http://www.astrosurf.com/rondi/theo/atlas_coeli

#cosmography #astronomy #astrodon #starmap #charts #sky #map #skymap #atlas #universe #space #science #archive #archives

Check out this interesting interview of John "Jack" Eddy on the importance of astronomy in the culture of the Skidi Pawnee people. Love the star map presented at the end.

from the french documentary "Tours du Monde, tours du ciel" produced in 1991, on the history of astronomy.

#astronomy #history #pawnee #skidipawnee #people #culture #star #stars #map #starmap #astrodon #documentary

#JohannGabrielDoppelmayr Star map; 1730

#art #mastoart #scienceart #starmap

I updated the system for star designations, and had a palm to the forehead moment about having put the Z coordinate in the upper left. Then, during a morning constitutional, this came to me.

To make it 3D,
I needed a spot for the Z.
By using the square
I had a blank spot for Z there,
just left of the star.
The space had a useful sidebar,
thus leaving the room
for the star's name if you zoom.

#Traveller #3D #TTRPG #StarMap

New sector star labeling, with Z to the right of the star and the name on top.

Who woulda thought #BattleBots was the low point of the episode 🤣🤣

Also, is it next Tuesday yet? 🤓

#StarWars #Ahsoka #SabineWren #lightsaber #StarMap #Thrawn

If anyone else is trying to incorporate 3D into Traveller, which helps suspend disbelief in the setting, I suggest using light years instead of parsecs. It means tripling jump distances and ranges, because a light year is about a third of a parsec.

We're using two tech sub-steps for the jump ranges in between.

This sample route map illustrates the need for the extra elbow room. Players shouldn't have to figure Euclidean distance every time before they jump.

#TTRPG #Traveller #3D #Starmap

3D sector map for Traveller, with jump routes that express the Euclidean distances.

Older Works - 2015 - #FutureFireMagazine

Illustration 2 of 2 for the short fiction 'Menander' by Angela Ambroz
https://mastodon.online/@fluffgar/110794236144153124

*Using any of my work to train A.I. is forbidden.*
#art #illustration #MastoArt #CreativeToots #galaxy #StarMap #fiction #ShortFiction

#starmap

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