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50 light year radius map of major stars, XY-planar projection centered on Sol. Star selection is based on the "Stars within 50 light years" map from www.atlasoftheuniverse.com. RA/Dec data is J2000 from SIMBAD, translated to Galactic XYZ (light years). Tried to use classical or popular names when possible. Data and paths were rendered with NBOS Software's AstroSynthesis 3.0. Put together in Photoshop CS4. Paths generally (but not always) go to the nearest stars, and are more to give a sense of structure. Every star has at least three and no more than five paths. Aqua represents (wholly or mostly) above or parallel to the z-axis, rust is below.
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~sohryuL Mar 15, 2013
Wow, this is great and comprehensive. Just what I was looking for?

A legend would be nice - while star spectral classes are obviously visible (and that's really helpful), the path colors are a bit unintuitive.
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~WMediaIndustries Mar 15, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thanks! An "upgraded" (more like divergent) model is available ([link]) that actually expresses true distance connections up to 20ly, which is better for relative positioning.
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~pri4es Nov 25, 2012
Hello. Maybe somebody have this map in psd?
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~WMediaIndustries Dec 5, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Hi! Sorry, don't check dA often. I've sent you a message with the .psd file. If somebody else wants it for some reason, let me know and I can post a link. All I ask is some sort of text credit.
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Epic. :)
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*Shimmering-Sword Apr 6, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
So this is a fairly accurate depiction of the star composition around us? Any further data on say, which ones have planetary / substantial material fields around them?
I know this is all stuff that I should research myself, but I'm no astronomer and just reading (not-good-looking) charts graphs and lists confuses and bores the heck out of me :D
A big thing holding me back in developing the write-up for my own story project is laying out the distribution of factions and their colony worlds, I want them to be semi accurate to real space, so stuff like this could help me out a lot. Not going to jack your image, but I'm definitely inspired and enlightened. Thanks for watching me, otherwise I'd never have seen this.
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~WMediaIndustries Apr 6, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
There are dozens of red dwarfs in the volume this would encompass, but in terms of larger stars, this should be pretty accurate. I've made some variations on this but have been side-tracked with other things, so they're not really in a presentable state. For real planet data, something like [link] is probably a good bet. Of course, we're getting more data all the time, so at some point you just have to start making it up yourself.

Glad it was of some help, and no problem!
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*Shimmering-Sword Apr 6, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
Yeah, what you display here was nice to see because it's visual and there are varying names to each star. The linked database of planets is a good pile of data, but I'd have to learn how to use it and then I still have to name everything, at which point I'd almost rather wing it pending astronomy nerd outrage and just slap planets on random groups of stars :D
I'm assuming to have a realistic colonized/mining humanity with a vast number of worlds I'd have to extend the scope far beyond what you've shown here, correct?
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~WMediaIndustries Apr 6, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
It really depends on what one imagines the frequency of Earth-like worlds is. For ones that don't take a lot of work to make livable, there could be anything from 1 (Earth) to a few dozen in this region. We don't know for sure yet. Probably closer to the former, maybe 10 garden worlds and a lot of close-but-not-quites.

To get hundreds or thousands, yeah, you'd need a bigger volume. Of course, volume scales with the cube of radius, so if you double the radius (50ly to 100ly), you get 8 times the volume. With a few hundred light years of radius, you'll easily be up into the hundreds of thousands of stars a lots and lots of planets.

To be honest, depending on how vague you are, there's little enough known that you've got artistic license to do almost anything.
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~WMediaIndustries Jan 5, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Unfortunately I don't, as I can't find a way to make the program output its routes (either automatically generated or user-made). I do have the XYZ position data in some Excel files though, if you'd like me to send it to you.

I did see your idea of using Greek letters and re-sizing stars, by the way; I opted not to for simplicity's sake in this one, but I haven't actually played around with it to know whether I'd want to or not. I'll eventually have to update the 3D perspective, so who knows...
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