/starmap

Interactive star-map that delivers info about stars on click.

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Stars API -- another try

Thanks a ton to HYG for collating all this data so nicely!

Screenshot

Here's a map drawn using equatorial coordinates (right ascension and declination), with size of star based on its apparent brightness (Sirius is the largest one). Stars are gray if they have a proper name listed in the database. (If you look closely, you'll find Deneb colored black!)

screen shot 2018-02-27 at 8 10 29 pm

Rectangular coordinate view: screen shot 2018-03-02 at 1 03 40 am

Radial/Polar coordinate view: screen shot 2018-03-02 at 1 03 18 am

Next steps:

  • Let user zoom (perhaps by a click and drag box)
  • Add background images on hover
  • Move time with forward/back buttons to rotate
  • Let user input location (lat/long) and see their local sky (first just target center, then try to get rotation correct for the hour)
  • Going along with the above, add in Directions (N, S, E, W)
  • Let user click and drag to move position of center (this of course depends on figuring out the coordinate mapping)