THE ATLAS
The sky as data
PLATE I · THE WHOLE SKY · 179 STARS

scroll · the lens descends

The legend

The color of the sky is data.

Nothing here is decorated. Every disc takes its ink from the star's measured color index, its size from real magnitude, its place from the catalogue.

Color · B−V index

Size · magnitude

Brighter is bigger. Sirius, at −1.44, is the brightest star in the night sky.

Projection

equirectangular · right ascension west-positive
angular distances compressed for legibility
depth is not to scale; the dive is a lens, not a voyage
hover a star to read it · click pins · press a card’s B−V to light its class · esc releases

data: HYG database (astronexus.com), CC BY-SA
179 stars, magnitude ≤ 3.0 · figures follow common asterisms

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