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Old July 6th, 2008
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I've created a Star Map HTML file at Star Map that contains stars within 70 or so parsecs of the sun.

It is best viwed with the smallest Text Size as that makes it one screen-width wide, or it does on my PC.

It uses an on-line resource that contains 119,618 stars, but not all of them have made it onto the starmap as they are too far away.

The star map is in layers, with each layer representing a 2D slice of the mapped cube of space. Z Co-ord 0 represents the layer containing Sol and the others are roughly 1 parsec apart (I think).

There are some hyperlinks at the start of the web page pointing to the different planes.

I included stars with names, stars with catalogue numbers and stars without names for completeness. However, it would be a simple matter to take un-named stars out, for instance.

As I am not an artist, I haven't a clue how to convert these to images, so they will have to remain as text files.

What do you think?

Are they:
1. OK
2. Too detailed (too many stars)
3. Too complicated (too many symbols)
4. Too big (too many charts)
5. Difficult to use
6. Not suitable for a SciFi RPG

Feedback and comments are welcome.
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