Star Map to Vega (sticks)

I already had a star map, a Delaunay triangulation, but that had far too many bars to be understandable. This is a new attempt. This time, I just include the edges that are not the longest edge of any triangle. The star with the little protrusion in the middle is the Sun, the protrusion is Alpha Centauri.

Each star has a volume that corresponds to the energy it's putting out. I normalized this to have the Sun be a sphere of the same diameter as the rods, one light year wide. Which means that the Sun is the connection point of six bars in the middle (really a "star"!), and engulfed by the rods, so not visibly a sphere.

The largest star on the outside is Vega: these are the 129 "star systems" (groups of stars less than one light year apart, where the number 129 also includes the Sun) that are not further away than Vega, slightly over 25 light years away. That means that this "map" is a bit bigger than the earlier ones. Also, this time I didn't include brown dwarfs.

I took the data for this thing from http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/nearstar.html.