zkbt / thefriendlystars

Python toolkit for making finder charts with catalogs that cover a small patch of the sky.
MIT License
0 stars 1 forks source link

Document simple finder chart a little more clearly. #7

Open zkbt opened 3 months ago

zkbt commented 3 months ago

Write up exactly how stars are being portrayed in plot_gaia = what does symbol area mean, are galaxies included, what are faintest and brightest (!) stars that might possibly appear, what should folks watch out for? Right now, it's basically this:

Rainbows-5

But we could/should think about whether we want to have options of using the symbols to represent anything about star color and/or variability and/or distance.