See how The Great Square of Pegasus Asterism looks in space.
Note: Constellations are plotted as they appear from Equinox J2000 coordinates. Align the Sun (Orange dot) close to the center to view the stars like they appear on earth. Constellations with stars close to the Earth like Canis Major are hard to be viewed from Earth perspective due to the limited point of view of the graphing area. However the stars can be explored as they are plotted with the right co-ordinates.
PAAC brings you Stars in 3D where we collect stars from various constellations and asterisms, use their co-ordinates to plot them in 3D space to give you a view of how they would look if you were in another planet far far away.
Click here to Know how we do this.
We take each star from a given formation and take its Distance, Right Ascension and Declination which in Mathematical terms is nothing but spherical co-ordinates of a point P(Rθ,,Φ).
We then use highly advanced, complex mathematical functions (not really... easy formulas) to convert these R,θ,Φ to x,y,z co-ordinates and plot them with Plotly Script.
That's all.
The Sun (Orange Dot) , when aligned to middle, the constellation should look how it appears from Earth. Play a little with the orientation to get a perfect match.a
Note: The Distances of various stars are approximates and the errors have not been considered.
Plotting Tool: Plotly
Star Data: Wikipedia
