Space: A Real Star Chart
I made a star chart according to the real locations of celestial objects. It could be good for decorations, actually functional and educational.
I use various colours to differentiate constellations and different shapes to differentiate apparent magnitude. Big pentagrams designate stars of magnitude 1 and 2, small petagrams of magnitude 3, and dots of magnitude 4 and 5. Galaxies are big transparent rings, open clusters are small green rings and globular clusters are luminous yellow rings.
Top left corner is a black hole according to the 2019 picture.
Bottom right corner, I included moon and planets with real colours and relative sizes: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Four giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn with a ring, Uranus and Neptune.
Empty spaces are left to make it less crowded, but decorations such as astronaut minifigures could be added.
It is a digital model, easy to modify.
Making this is very time consuming but I truly enjoyed it. Hope it brings some starlights to you.
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