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speleotoday at 7:18 PM3 repliesview on HN

Hi there! This is Val, I made the star chart. There's a little "about" blurb you can open in a modal on the site, but I wanted to mention that this demo uses the amazing GAIA DR3 dataset from ESA. I have a Python script that renders all 1.8+ billion stars into custom images, which is what I used for the skybox. The star positions and colors all use the GAIA data (save for a few bright stars not in the set). The data is amazing, and if you have any interest in doing some fun projects with open data I recommend checking it out: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr3


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wlesieutretoday at 8:52 PM

Great map. Wish the star map in Starfield was this nice!

asablatoday at 7:34 PM

Super cool! how long did it take to generate all those custom images?

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codesniktoday at 8:31 PM

but why solar system is so out of scale?

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