Our Galactic Region

The Site in General

WOW, this site is very useful, I'm currently making a science fiction game, and i want accurate scientific evidence on locations of stars an planets, this is perfect ^ - ^.

Spreadsheet

Hi,

Glad to hear that you find the site useful.

If you want the data, much of it can be downloaded from the spreadsheets linked from the sources page:

http://galaxymap.org/drupal/node/5

Galactic Idiot needs help

I am looking for V404 Cygni. Can anyone tell me which map its in? I brought my towel. Ha ha ha ha. I thought that was funny. Traveler.

V404 Cygni

According to the scientific literature, V404 Cygni is located at galactic coordinates (73.1190 -02.0911) and has a minimum distance of 1000 parsecs. This puts it on this map:

http://galaxymap.org/detail_maps/cygnusx.html

It is roughly at the same longitude as the star association Cyg OB3 (which includes the famous suspected black hole Cygnus X-1), but at a galactic latitude of -2 degrees, is much further south.

There is not much in this direction - no major star clusters, molecular clouds, etc. It is in the Milky Way equivalent of a rural area.

Hope this helps.

What a great site. I am in

What a great site. I am in the process of writing a science fiction novel and currently doing some research on the constellations and plausable planetary systems they may contain. Already I have to change a couple elements of the story since I found out that one of the constellations has a black hole in it. Thanks for such a wonderful site. Traveler

48 inch Schmidt telescope

Your web site is excellent. I have a minor comment. Your write up says the Sharpless images were "taken using the 48 inch Schmidt telescope at the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories in the San Gabriel Mountains near Pasadena, northeast of Los Angeles." I thought the 48" was located southeast of LA.

Re: Schmidt telescope

Thanks for the correction! I've fixed the article.