Zooming Star Map

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This 'tclette' is very heavily influenced by the PAD++ project.

Hold down the left mouse button to drag the map around, the middle button to zoom in, and the right button to zoom out. Non 3-button mouse users can use shift-button to emulate the middle button and control-button to emulate the right-button.

Click on "ludicrous speed" if the zooming is too slow.

This fairly accurate starmap plots the roughly 1600 brighest stars. Not all positions are 100% accurate. Some distortion due to Riemann Theorem. More stars are visible at higher zoom levels. Comments welcome at sarang@sarangworld.com

If you would like me to program custom tclette(s) for you, please email me at sarang@sarangworld.com. I charge $50/hour, or can quote on a per-job basis.

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