Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-9141454-20160114212456/@comment-4242472-20160115174703

One thing other galaxy maps I think were having a little trouble with is having their icons stand out in high star-density areas. The shadows present in the second picture is probably our answer.

Angling our star maps may bring up a depth issue unless we remove the sense of perspective. In some cases that might allows us to indicate where either above or below the projection plane a certain star is.