Stellar Cartography

From Obsidian Fleet Database

Star cartography, stellar cartography, celestial cartography, or uranography is the branch of astronomy concerned with mapping the stars, galaxies, and a multitude of other celestial bodies. Positioning and measuring the light of charted objects requires a multitude of instruments, that have developed from bare-eye angle measurements with quadrants, later lenses for light magnification have been combined into sextants, and in the current age, computer automated space telescopes have been measuring up accurate star positions. Uranographers have historically produced planetary position tables, star tables and star maps fit for amateur and professional observations, nowadays computerized star maps, and automated positioning of telescopes are routinely using huge databases of stars and other astronomical objects.

• In the modern Starfleet the Stellar Cartography is used to chart the universe using sub space sensors, light spectrum telescopes to name but a few.
• There is a normally a dedicated Department on Starfleet ships for the very propose of charting space.
• The charts that are created are used though out the Federation for navigating and for establishing territory.
• All Federation ships are kept up to date by a Subspace link to the main Cartography computer around their space.

• Obsidian Fleet map
• Planetary Classifications
• Warp chart of travelling times
• Black Hole
• Nebula
• Planet
• Star
• Wormhole