Cosmo star clusters, one method
JimP
🖼️ 280 images Cartographer
Instead of me needing help, I think this time I can help others. I have been thinking about, and working on maps, for a little over a year in trying to come up with a way to show open clusters of stars in Cosmographer. I saw a number of methods by a number of people.
Here is mine. 1) use a standard sector/sub-sector cosmo Traveller template to show the overhead view.
2) I turned the sub-sector template sideways. That gves the map maker 8 rows to put solar systems in. And they can be stacked. For those who want to represent globular clusters.
First one is a row numbered png of the edited template. The second one is the star cluster, different colors on this map are the 6 different layers of stars.
Here is mine. 1) use a standard sector/sub-sector cosmo Traveller template to show the overhead view.
2) I turned the sub-sector template sideways. That gves the map maker 8 rows to put solar systems in. And they can be stacked. For those who want to represent globular clusters.
First one is a row numbered png of the edited template. The second one is the star cluster, different colors on this map are the 6 different layers of stars.
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Here is a png of a slightly different template. The Layer bit at the top can be used to stack these to many layers, making globular clusters easy to map. The hard part would be giving names to the planets.
I shrank these pngs, so that might be why the various parts turned gray.