Long before moon navigation and GPS, explorers were already environment their sights toward space. Since we archetypal saw the night sky, humanity has been fascinated by the stars. Over thousands of years, astronomers have tracked the positions of stars and another objects (such as planets, which were described as planetes, or wanderers, by the ancient Greeks). They used the stars to inform stories, create predictions, and equal discover their way. All of which depended on having an exact map, mental or otherwise, of the heavens above.
This stunning map by Florian Winkler catalogs the stars of the night sky in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s built using data from Stellarium, the HYG Database, and W. H. Finlay’s Concise Catalog of Deep-sky Objects.
