Navigating the Sky Atlas
How to read the visual layer of AsteriaStar — the all-sky star charts drawn from real coordinates, the constellation and deep-sky atlases, and the explorers that browse the Solar System, the Milky Way, and the Local Group. Every map is drawn from measured positions; nothing is invented.
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- Atlas view
All-Sky Star Atlas
A whole-sky chart plotting every catalogued star at its real right ascension and declination, sized by apparent magnitude. Rendered as scalable vector graphics directly from the star catalogue's measured coordinates — nothing is invented; a star appears only where the data places it.
- Atlas view
Deep-Sky Atlas
A map of the catalogued deep-sky objects — galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters — drawn from their measured right ascension and declination, with symbols scaled by angular size. The wider sky beyond the naked-eye stars.
- Atlas view
Local Group Explorer
An explorer of our galactic neighbourhood — the Milky Way, Andromeda, Triangulum, the Magellanic Clouds, and the dozens of dwarf galaxies bound with them into the Local Group. Prepared for a three-dimensional map of the nearby universe.
- Atlas overlay
Gaia Survey Overlay
A layer representing the all-sky astrometric coverage of the Gaia mission, whose measured positions and parallaxes underpin the modern star catalogue that the atlas draws.