#starmaps

Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2025-11-22

Placing and is giving me fits tonight. Not for the first time either. I just want to find X-Y placements that fit what's been published and broadcast/streamed.

Excerpt from a work-in-progress star map designed by Dwight Williams, inspired by various works set in the Star Trek universe. The Bajoran and Cardassian home systems are highlighted with spot-colour rings. A scan of the map of the region from the book Star Trek: Star Charts is used as an underlay for reference as the work continues.
Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2025-07-12

Working on multiple maps of the same region of 's version of our galaxy is fun. It's also research-intensive and time-consuming, especially where keeping the various maps consistent with each other is concerned.

flic.kr/p/2rg346y

Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2025-07-01

Working on this afternoon. I'll probably turn on CBC to listen to the evening concert from downtown Ottawa while I play with my maps...

Eric the half-a-beeEricthebeeover2@mastodon.au
2025-04-26

Hi, can any of your Linux mavins out there recommend a good astronomy star map program?

#linux #LinuxMint #astronomy #StarMaps

Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2025-04-17
Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2024-10-06

Well, I thought V442 Ursae Majoris might be a good candidate for Amleth. Looks like that star is too far rimward for my wants. Any alternative suggestions?

Screencap from Kevin Jardine's searchable Gaia 6 kpc map showing the location of V442 Ursae Majoris relative to the Hyades cluster. Screenshot generated 6 October 2024.
Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2024-08-06

Pulling together references from Chapter 8 of "In the Raptor's Claws".

intheraptorsclaws.wordpress.com/2024/07/01/c...

Excerpt from Earth-Romulan War base map for the historical fanfiction "In the Raptor's Claws". Highlighting the proposed locations of seven Earth colonies named as destroyed or attacked by Romulan forces in Chapter 8: Amani, Fort Liberty, Moore, Jayhawk, Port Young, New Thrace and Novodesa.
Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2024-03-04

What I've got left to nail down in the Triangle:

R'o
Mantiev
Stork's Rest
Actonn
Altharra
Deerlam
Fooled Again
Freeman's Port
Newlin
Overlinn
Passarra's Dream
Fenris
Soroya

The last two have to fit with the maps in Firewall. Not sure whether I should pick stars for Vashti and Qiris as well.

Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2024-02-29

Speaking of world-building...I'm still doting on this little project with @BadSocialism over here. Fenris and Soroya and R'o and Deerlam and Mantiev (among others) are driving me batty.

flic.kr/p/2pAwihM

Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2023-11-02
Work in Progress - image of the Triangle/Phalanx region as mapped for the Edge of Midnight Star Trek fanfiction project by John Concagh.
2023-10-24

Incredible Map of the Universe Released by Gaia Telescope and NOIRLabs - YouTube
youtube.com/watch?v=XILBnlB9Gg

#Astronomy #Cosmology #StarMaps

Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2023-10-22

Update on project.

Thinking I may have added the to my map's jurisdiction here.

Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2023-10-08

@dpnash Your database work has been of much help to me in recent months.

By way of explanation:

Excerpt of work in progress on Edge of Midnight base map. New Richmond Colony from Edge of Midnight's first chapter highlighted.
Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2023-10-08

Trying to find other IDs for GAIA DR3 3351298148539024000. Because of project.

Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2023-09-04

A little more progress today and tonight.

Updated excerpt from the Edge of Midnight base map by Dwight Williams. Focus of this excerpt is on the antispinward/coreward regions of Federation/Klingon border space.
Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2023-08-29
Excerpt from work in progress on my base map for the Edge of Midnight historical fanfiction project. Progress shown is current as of 28 August 2023.
Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2023-08-01

An ongoing project...and the Alshanai Rift might end up getting moved spinward.

A screencap of an ongoing fan art project building upon Star Trek: Star Charts/Stellar Cartography publications for a work of fan fiction presented in the form of a history textbook.
Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2023-07-30

mapping question: two options I'm looking at for homestar:

1. GJ 3414

2. HD 10226

What considerations to keep in mind?

Needs to be close to the core systems.

Needs to be on the "roads" between those core systems and Bajor/Cardassia's neighbourhood.

Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦DEWLine
2023-07-30

Still undecided re: the Binary Stars (DS Ceti vs. HD 15146) for now.

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