#space maps

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Tactical maps from SNW S01E10 "A Quality of Mercy" from Timothy Peel on Twitter

Note the fonts and visual similarity to the 1980 Star Trek Maps

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The original boundary of Federation space, Star Trek Maps (1980)

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Ancient Astronomy

2000–1600 B.C.

Excavated illegally in 1999 in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, the extraordinary Nebra Sky Disc is considered both the first known portable astronomical instrument and the oldest-known graphic depiction of celestial objects in human history.

Made of a blue-green copper inset with lustrous gold, the twelve-inch-wide disc contains an arrangement of seven stars probably representing the Pleiades. They’re in between a crescent moon on the right and either the full moon or sun in the center. Two golden bands at the disc’s edge (one is missing) span eighty-two degrees, corresponding to the angle between sunset at the winter and summer solstices at the latitude where it was found.

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Cartography from the Cardassian Sourcebook [X]