作者 skyquasar (為妳守著夜空...) 看板 astroclub
標題 s&T雜誌編輯回信給我們關於星圖製作...
時間 Mon May 10 12:10:39 1999
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Steven A. Simpson (Associate Art Director)天空與望遠鏡雜誌美術指導
告訴我們一些製作星圖的方法：

以下是我的request letter
>Dear Sir:
> I am a reader and also a member of astro club in NTHU UNIVERSITY
>,TAIWAN. I have a few questions, would mind to tell me some know-how
>about making a sky map? I really appreciate your maps. May I use
>"TheSky" to generate such beautiful one? or you have special software?
>Please let me know a little, we feel like to set a homepage to teach
>students how to use star maps.but without a good tool ,we can't accomplish this
job.
clear sky Lucas


下面是他的回答：
Dear Lucas,
 
It is a complicated process to make the maps we publish in Sky & Telescope.
Roger Sinnott, associate editor, has written software to produce maps that
are output as vector (eps) files. We in the Art and Design department then
use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to finish them.

Unfortunately, Roger's software is not available to the public. I'm aftaid
all you can do is buy something like "The Sky"since there just is not much
of a market for software to make maps suitable for publishing.

The best you can do (if you can't write your own software) is plot a map in
"The Sky" for positions, then use it as a guide draft over with a vector
drawing program.

I'm glad you like our maps in S&T.

I'm sorry I can't be of more help to you.

Sincerely,

Steven A. Simpson (Associate Art Director)