Have you any conclusions on where on the galactic map you want your LDS-specific venues to be? I worry that we're going to have wait a bit longer for the next revision of either #StarCharts or #StellarCartography...

Excerpt from the base map for The Edge of Midnight. Highlighted by a rounded-corners box is the star HIP 56399, tentatively designated by map designer Dwight Williams as a candidate for home star of the planet Benzar.

Excerpt from the base map for future Tranquility Press projects focused on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Dominion-Federation War story arc. Highlighted by a rounded-corners box is the star HIP 56399, tentatively designated by map designer Dwight Williams as a candidate for home star of the planet Benzar.

I think I have a tentative candidate for Barzan's homestar. HIP 56399.

#StarTrek #debates #stellarcartography #mapdesign #starcharts #opinion #astronomy #research

Long-term Activity Cycles In Planetary M Stars Observed With SOPHIE - Astrobiology M dwarfs are prime targets for exoplanet searches due to their low masses and radii, which enable the detection of small planets in their habitable zones (HZs)

Long-term Activity Cycles In Planetary M Stars Observed With SOPHIE
astrobiology.com/2026/03/long... #astrobiology #exoplanet #spaceweather #stellarcartography

TEPCat: The Transiting Extrasolar Planet Catalogue - Astrobiology Transiting extrasolar planets are extraordinarily valuable for understanding the characteristics

TEPCat: The Transiting Extrasolar Planet Catalogue
astrobiology.com/2026/03/tepc... #Astrobiology #StellarCartography #exoplanet #astronomy

Elevated Eccentricities In The Radius Valley Hint At Water-Rich Mini-Neptunes - Astrobiology While recent planet-formation models broadly reproduce the observed population of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes

Elevated Eccentricities In The Radius Valley Hint At Water-Rich Mini-Neptunes
astrobiology.com/2026/03/elev... #Astrobiology #StellarCartography #exoplanet #astronomy

TESS Planet Occurrence Rates Reveal the Disappearance of the Radius Valley Around Mid-to-Late M Dwarfs - Astrobiology We present the deepest systematic search for planets around mid-to-late M dwarfs to date.

TESS Planet Occurrence Rates Reveal the Disappearance of the Radius Valley Around Mid-to-Late M Dwarfs
astrobiology.com/2026/03/tess... #Astrobiology #StellarCartography #exoplanet #astronomy

Stellar Cartography: Rubin Observatory Launches Real-time Monitoring Of The Sky With Thousands Of Alerts - Astrobiology On Feb. 24, astronomers’ computers around the world lit up with a deluge of cosmic notifications — 800,000 alerts

Stellar Cartography: Rubin Observatory Launches Real-time Monitoring Of The Sky With Thousands Of Alerts
astrobiology.com/2026/03/stel... #Astrobiology #StellarCartography #exoplanet #astronomy

Inspirational quote: Like a constellation's unseen stars, our true paths are illuminated by the darkness between.

Like a constellation's unseen stars, our true paths are illuminated by the darkness between.

#StellarCartography #UncertaintyAsGuide #CosmicNavigation

If I understand the location correctly, it's not too far from the Klingon-Federation border. Rimward of Boreth and J'Gal. Davlos would be on the Federation side of the line. At least in the XY plane...

#StarTrek #StellarCartography

Inspirational quote: In the cartography of our souls, darkness is not absence, but a canvas for starlight to inscribe its...

In the cartography of our souls, darkness is not absence, but a canvas for starlight to inscribe its wisdom.

#AstroSoul #DarkMatterWisdom #StellarCartography

Increased And Varied Radiation During The Sun's Encounters With Cold Clouds In The Last 10 Million Years - Astrobiology the Sun encountered massive clouds that shrank the heliosphere

Increased And Varied Radiation During The Sun's Encounters With Cold Clouds In The Last 10 Million Years
astrobiology.com/2026/01/incr... #astrobiology #interstellar #stellarcartography

Astronomers Reveal The Teenage Years Of New Worlds - Astrobiology Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a detailed snapshot of planetary systems in an era long shrouded in mystery.

Astronomers Reveal The Teenage Years Of New Worlds
astrobiology.com/2026/01/astr... #astrobiology #exoplanet #stellarcartography

Modeling the Impact of Unresolved Stellar Companions on Detection Sensitivity in Kepler's Small Planet Occurrence Rates - Astrobiology Unresolved stellar companions can cause both under-estimations in the radii of transiting planets and over-estimations of their detectability

Modeling The Impact Of Unresolved Stellar Companions On Detection Sensitivity In Kepler's Small Planet Occurrence Rates
astrobiology.com/2026/01/mode... #astrobiology #exoplanet #stellarcartography #astronomy

Exoplanet Atmospheres And Demographics In The 2040s - Astrobiology Direct observations of exoplanets probe the demographics and atmospheric composition of young self-luminous companions

Exoplanet Atmospheres And Demographics In The 2040s
astrobiology.com/2026/01/exop... #astrobiology #exoplanet #StellarCartography

Naturally Occurring “Space Weather Station” Elucidates New Way To Study Habitability Of Planets Orbiting M Dwarf Stars - Astrobiology How does a star affect the makeup of its planets?

Naturally Occurring “Space Weather Station” Elucidates New Way To Study Habitability Of Planets Orbiting M Dwarf Stars
astrobiology.com/2026/01/natu... #astrobiology #exoplanet #spaceweather #stellarcartography #AAS247

Inspirational quote: Like the faint glow of a nebula's edge, uncertainty illuminates the unseen paths between stars.

Like the faint glow of a nebula's edge, uncertainty illuminates the unseen paths between stars.

#StellarCartography #CosmicNavigation #AstralResilience

Bridging Stellar Evolution And Planet Formation: From Birth, To Survivors Of The Fittest, To The Second Generation Of Planets - Astrobiology Stars and planets form, live, and evolve in unison.

Bridging Stellar Evolution And Planet Formation: From Birth, To Survivors Of The Fittest, To The Second Generation Of Planets
astrobiology.com/2025/12/brid... #astrobiology #exoplanet #StellarCartography

Inspirational quote: Like Cassiopeia's twisted 'W', freedom's shape shifts with each new star we chart.

Like Cassiopeia's twisted 'W', freedom's shape shifts with each new star we chart.

#StellarCartography #FreedomInStructure #CosmicNavigation

Transients As Determinants Of Habitability - Astrobiology Stellar magnetic activity, manifested through spots (faculae and flares), fundamentally shapes the exoplanets’ environments. For low-mass stars in particular, where most habitable-zone planets reside,...

Transients As Determinants Of Habitability
astrobiology.com/2025/12/tran... #astrobiology #spaceweather #stellarcartography #AGU25

Inspirational quote: Like Andromeda's spiral arms, our paths unfold with precision and wildness, a dance of starlight and...

Like Andromeda's spiral arms, our paths unfold with precision and wildness, a dance of starlight and shadow.

#StellarCartography #CosmicFreedom #AstralNavigation

Close Brush With Two Hot Stars Left A Mark Just Beyond Our Solar System - Astrobiology hot stars brushed tantalizingly close to Earth’s sun

Close Brush With Two Hot Stars Left A Mark Just Beyond Our Solar System
astrobiology.com/2025/12/clos... #astrobiology #astrochemistry #stellarcartography

Carina Nebula has been cited once or twice in #StarTrekProdigy, if memory serves?

Also, noting that for the closer ones, they're sticking with published material in #StarCharts / #StellarCartography despite those using #Hipparcos data, rather than more recent #GaiaMission.

Excerpt from a work-in-progress star map designed by Dwight Williams, inspired by various works set in the Star Trek universe. The Bajoran and Cardassian home systems are highlighted with spot-colour rings. A scan of the map of the region from the book Star Trek: Star Charts is used as an underlay for reference as the work continues.

Placing #Bajor and #Cardassia is giving me fits tonight. Not for the first time either. I just want to find X-Y placements that fit what's been published and broadcast/streamed.

#StarTrek #mapdesign #wip #starcharts #stellarcartography #TranquilityPress #fanart #fanfiction

On The Exoplanet Yield Of Gaia Astrometry - Astrobiology We re-examine the expected yield of Gaia astrometric planet detections

On The Exoplanet Yield Of Gaia Astrometry
astrobiology.com/2025/11/on-t... #astrobiology #astronomy #Stellarcartography #exoplanet

Planetary Architectures Under The Influence Of A Stellar Binary - Astrobiology The presence of a stellar companion can strongly influence the architecture and long-term stability of planetary systems.

Planetary Architectures Under The Influence Of A Stellar Binary
astrobiology.com/2025/11/plan... #astrobiology #exoplanet #stellarcartography

A Revised Three-dimensional Stellar Cartography: Visualization Of The Local Group of Galaxies - Astrobiology A new three-dimensional reconstruction of the Local Group (142 confirmed members) and nearest galaxies (6 members) is presented

Stellar Cartography: A Revised Three-dimensional Visualization of the Local Group of Galaxies
astrobiology.com/2025/11/a-re... #astrobiology #astronomy #cosmology #StellarCartography #StarTrek

#StarTrek #StellarCartography question:

Could MY Ursae Majoris AKA HIP 57859 be Chin'Toka instead of Sigma-2 UMa?

Inspirational quote: Like Andromeda's spiral arms, our paths unwind into the dark, star by star, a slow revelation.

Like Andromeda's spiral arms, our paths unwind into the dark, star by star, a slow revelation.

#StellarCartography #CosmicDrift #UncertaintyPrinciple

Inspirational quote: Like a cartographer of stars, I find my way by the boundaries that border me, each constraint a guid...

Like a cartographer of stars, I find my way by the boundaries that border me, each constraint a guiding light in the velvet expanse.

#StellarCartography #CreativeLimitations #BoundaryAsGuide

Celebrating the October 9, 2018 release of the updated #StarTrek #StellarCartography! All these updates (shown in red) represent #StarTrekDiscovery S1 (and dozens of other additions/corrections). Do you have a copy?

#drtrek #trekland #startrekstellarcartography