Parts of the Universe Shows Fewer Named Stars I'm becoming interested in the currently identified stars in the universe. There is a wide swath where much fewer named stars are shown. Why is this?
The image below is a mollweide projection of the universe, with the earth at its center. It shows about 230,000 named stars located at their right ascension/declination points.
The database used for the above was for Deep Sky Objects, not stars.
When I changed the database the correct one, then the following image is distribution of 120,000 named stars. Thanks for flagging my error.