This applet is very heavily influenced by the PAD++ project.
Hold down the left mouse button to drag the map around, the middle button to zoom in, and the right button to zoom out. Non 3-button mouse users can use shift-button to emulate the middle button and control-button to emulate the right-button (several people have informed me that the applet is not working properly for mouses with fewer than 3 buttons-- I am looking into the problem)
This fairly accurate starmap plots the 1628 brighest stars. Not all positions are 100% accurate. Signifigant distortion near the poles. Comments welcome at sarang@sarangworld.com
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