It does sound sort of silly. What's so stellar about it?
We already have words for the charting of stars - astrography is the most commonly used one. What is stellar cartography supposed to be about, if it isn't the same as astrography? Is it the charting of the surfaces of stars (the same way one might chart the patterns of clouds)? Is it cartography done from the stars, or with the stars, or through the stars? In the shape of stars?
Timo Saloniemi
We already have words for the charting of stars - astrography is the most commonly used one. What is stellar cartography supposed to be about, if it isn't the same as astrography? Is it the charting of the surfaces of stars (the same way one might chart the patterns of clouds)? Is it cartography done from the stars, or with the stars, or through the stars? In the shape of stars?
Timo Saloniemi
