This map attempts to plot the sky into a rectangular shape by replacing North/South with Declination, and East/West with Right Ascension. Thus it has the same plotting issues as the Mercator projection, for example while the Little Dipper is a very small section of the sky, it's drawn here across the entire top due to its polar position.
Thanks! I was inspired by this quiz of Stewart's, but I felt like it needed more constellations (as in all of them). Took a while to find a rectangular map I liked, and then an extreme amount of editing to get it where I liked it.
Cheers, I know the different groups won't necessarily help a lot of people, but it'll make a lot of us northern-hemisphereites at least feel better after being completely clueless on the Bayer and La Caille groups.
Very cool. Since it's already very complicated, though, it may be nice to allow as type-ins some of the popular names of the constellations in English (the eagle, the dragon, the whale, the wolf, the dolphin,..).