Pythagoras Star Map v6
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Pythagoras Star Map v6

All 1,267 known systems within 50 ly. Drag (or one finger) to rotate, scroll/pinch to zoom. Click/tap a star to fly into its system and open its multi-catalogue data sheet. Zoom out (or press ✦ Clusters) to see 695 real star clusters out to 500 pc; click one for real telescope images.

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Star clusters & moving groups (Hunt & Reffert 2023, ≤500 pc; BANYAN Σ, Gagné+2018)Background sky (Hipparcos, V<6.5) Milky Way band (schematic) Constellation lines (Stellarium) Glow halos Distance rings (10 ly) Only planet hosts Only habitable-zone planet hosts Only systems with disputed/candidate planets Slow auto-rotate 0.23c routes, top 30 (design flight profile; colour = ISM proton energy in ship frame)

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Star colours: blackbody sRGB table, Mitchell Charity (2001). Stars: SIMBAD (CDS, France), Gaia DR3 (ESA), NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC, USA), CARMENES/Schweitzer+2019, Mann+2015, Boyajian+2012. Background: Hipparcos catalogue (ESA, I/239 via CDS VizieR). Constellations: Stellarium 'modern' sky culture (IAU figures). Clusters: Hunt & Reffert 2023 (Heidelberg, Germany). Star data sheets: Gaia DR3 Apsis (ESA), TIC v8.2 (NASA/MIT), 2MASS, AllWISE, GALEX (NASA), eROSITA eRASS1 (MPE, Germany), WDS (USNO), ExoFOP TOIs, LAMOST DR11 (NAOC, China), CARMENES (CAHA, Spain/Germany). JWST: MAST (STScI/NASA), ESA/Webb & NASA images. Moving groups: BANYAN Σ (Univ. de Montréal/iREx, Canada; AMNH, USA). Spectroscopy: APOGEE DR17 (SDSS-IV, USA/Chile), GALAH DR4 (AAO, Australia), HARPS/ESPRESSO archive (ESO, Germany/Chile), Gaia DR3 XP spectra (ESA/DPAC, EU). X-ray: Chandra Source Catalog 2.1 (CXC/SAO, USA). Images: Pan-STARRS1 (Univ. Hawaii IfA, USA), DESI Legacy Surveys DR10 (NOIRLab/LBNL, USA), SkyMapper DR4 (ANU, Australia), DSS2 via CDS hips2fits; ESO, NOIRLab (CC BY 4.0). three.js (MIT). · v5d: 0.23c routes — Pythagoras Concept Design v2.4 flight profile (design data, not flight-certified); LISM clouds — Redfield & Linsky 2008, ApJ 673, 283 (Univ. Colorado, USA), projection only; orbit 1σ errors — NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech-IPAC, USA); catalogue cross-check — Open Exoplanet Catalogue (H. Rein; GitHub, MIT licence; Canada/community origin), used as a substitute for exoplanet.eu, largely imported from the NASA archive so not independent; press images — ESA/Hubble, ESA/Webb (ESA, Europe / NASA, USA / CSA, Canada), ESO (Europe, Chile site), NSF NOIRLab (USA), CC BY 4.0, licence checked per image.