Back in May of this year, I’d had a really good night observing. One of the things I always like is getting new stars added to the catalog. I still have the map I entered into Kingdom A&S in 2019 floating around my house and it’s fun to look back and see how much has gotten added since then. That night of observation added quite a few stars to be pile and inspired me to go back and animate the progress after each observing run which I placed on YouTube and then evidently forgot to share. So here it is!
One of the things I really like about this video is you can see various things happen in it. For the first year of data, I didn’t have the azimuthal ring on the quadrant yet, so the additions to the data were much more narrow slices. It becomes quite obvious when suddenly I can hit half the sky at a time.
It’s also interesting to watch how the stellar positions get refined as more results get added and the positions begin to average out. Hopefully someday in the future, I’ll have enough observations that they’ll scarcely seem to move anymore.