Mark McCaughreanJun 6

In just under a fortnight, on 19 June, my book "111 Places in Space That You Must Not Miss", will be published by Emons in Germany, followed by the UK on 21 July & the US on 2 September 🪐✨📕

It's a tour guide of interesting places in our Solar System, the Milky Way, & Deep Space beyond, & describes what you'd find & learn if you were able to visit them 🙂

Here's a preview of the cover & a few chapters – it's available to order in all the usual places 🙇‍♂️

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Show threadGalaxy MapJun 7

@markmccaughrean I would love to add some of those to my space port:

https://kevinjardine.dev/blog/post-11/

Exploring the Milky Way in VR

New Horizon Worlds experiences to map the galaxy

Show threadMark McCaughreanJun 7

@galaxy_map That'd be cool. All of the images in the book are publicly available, or will be when the book is published.

That is, I've used images from the major space agencies & observatories, either published by them, or images made by talented processors from archival data & posted online. Some of my own work is in there & those will be on my Flickr page after 19 June.

Some images would need you to seek permission though.

Show threadGalaxy Map
@markmccaughrean Sounds good. What I've been doing is combining Gaia derived star data with astrophotography to create panoramic sky boxes to give people the feeling that they've arrived at a star station and are looking at a real sky. Each star station has a cartography room with maps and text descriptions of the current location. If I used any of your text, it would only be a sentence or two and I would of course credit the source. Do you think that would work?
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Show threadMark McCaughreanJun 7

@galaxy_map From my perspective, that would be fine, but I'm not sure what the publishers' take would be, as the copyright lies with them. I can at least ask.

Some useful information here on what is recognised as "fair use":

https://janefriedman.com/sample-permission-letter/

A Writer's Guide to Fair Use and Permissions + Sample Permissions Letter

Permissions is all about seeking permission to quote or excerpt other people's copyrighted work within your own. Here's when you need to seek permissions.

Jane Friedman
Show threadGalaxy MapJun 7
@markmccaughrean Thanks! Currently the starships in my galactic space port can travel to a dozen locations within 1250 parsecs but I'd be happy to add a second navigation map that goes out further.