Map To The Stars

The European Space Agency's Star Mapper is a map of 59,921 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue. ESA's Hipparcos undertook the start infinite mission alone dedicated to astronomy. During its mission Hipparcos measured the position, displace as well as distance of to a greater extent than than 100,000 stars.

One cool characteristic of the Star Mapper is the 'Motion' animation. If yous pick out the Motion pick yous tin persuasion an animation of the stars moving across the nighttime sky, inwards 1,000 yr increments. You tin also pick out the rewind push to expose how the stars appeared inwards the nighttime heaven inwards the by (again inwards 1,000 yr increments).

Star Mapper also allows yous to plough on or off the names of stars as well as the constellations on the map. You tin also switch betwixt a stereographic amd 3d map projection.