DIY Atlas of Space

This great weekend project was shared by Eleanor Lutz on makezine.com All you need is image editing software, raster and vector and a computer running Python 3.7.1 and GDAL 2.4.1

For two years I’ve been working on a collection of ten maps of planets, moons, and outer space. To name a few, I’ve made an animated map of the seasons on Earth, a map of Mars geology, and a map of everything in the solar system bigger than 10km. I call it my Atlas of Space.

Last summer I began sharing each map, along with the open-source Python code and detailed tutorials for re-creating the design. All of the astronomy data comes from publicly available sources like NASA, USGS, and the International Astronomical Union (IAU), so I thought this would be the perfect project for writing design tutorials (which I’ve been meaning to do for a while).

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