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In order to see its full pixelly beauty, expand the image twice.

This is something I've been working on for several months, but have put it off for a month due to school. I was originally going to upload it when it was finished, all 88 constellations done, but I'm not sure how long that will take if my research job really starts going, therefore, like my Crossoverse picture, Ill update it as I work on it.

This chart catalogs all the stars within 200 light years as recorded on these pages [link]

Only the distance, stellar classification and right ascension (basically the angle) are used, declination (height above the celestial equator) is ignored. This is not an overhead view, if it were, Vega would be directly over the sun. All gravitationally bound multiple stars are represented as a cluster of stars of the proper stellar types (Look at Mizar and Alcor, they're a big blue-white blob).

The grid was made with increments in each archour, then half hour, then quarter hour. Hour 17 is the general direction of galactic center, represented as "north" here. Circles are at 10 lightyear intervals. 1 light year is roughly 5 pixels in length.

The names of the stars are chosen by a rough priority:
Traditional name > Bayer designation > Gliese Catalog > Flamsteed/Gould designations > other catalogs. Exceptions are made in cases or "Rule of Cool" or if a more common designation is simply too long, and the Gliese designation is represented by both GL and GJ since both are accepted and used.

The straight lines of the grid were made in Corel PhotoImpact X3 so the angles would be precise, then copied to MS Paint. Everything else was done in MS Paint. All characters were made pixel by pixel.

Description
In order to see its full pixelly beauty, expand the image twice.

This is something I've been working on for several months, but have put it off for a month due to school. I was originally going to upload it when it was finished, all 88 constellations done, but I'm not sure how long that will take if my research job really starts going, therefore, like my Crossoverse picture, Ill update it as I work on it.

This chart catalogs all the stars within 200 light years as recorded on these pages [link]

Only the distance, stellar classification and right ascension (basically the angle) are used, declination (height above the celestial equator) is ignored. This is not an overhead view, if it were, Vega would be directly over the sun. All gravitationally bound multiple stars are represented as a cluster of stars of the proper stellar types (Look at Mizar and Alcor, they're a big blue-white blob).

The grid was made with increments in each archour, then half hour, then quarter hour. Hour 17 is the general direction of galactic center, represented as "north" here. Circles are at 10 lightyear intervals. 1 light year is roughly 5 pixels in length.

The names of the stars are chosen by a rough priority:
Traditional name > Bayer designation > Gliese Catalog > Flamsteed/Gould designations > other catalogs. Exceptions are made in cases or "Rule of Cool" or if a more common designation is simply too long, and the Gliese designation is represented by both GL and GJ since both are accepted and used.

The straight lines of the grid were made in Corel PhotoImpact X3 so the angles would be precise, then copied to MS Paint. Everything else was done in MS Paint. All characters were made pixel by pixel.