Project: Visualizing the Orion Constellation

Hello! This is my Constellation project for Data Science course. Seems like everything works fine.

1. Set-Up

fig2d = plt.figure()
fig2d.add_subplot(1, 1, 1)
plt.scatter(x, y, marker='o', lw=1, s=40, color='blue')
plt.title('Orion 2D')
plt.show()

2. Get familiar with real data

# Orion
x = [-0.41, 0.57, 0.07, 0.00, -0.29, -0.32,-0.50,-0.23, -0.23]
y = [4.12, 7.71, 2.36, 9.10, 13.35, 8.13, 7.19, 13.25,13.43]
z = [2.06, 0.84, 1.56, 2.07, 2.36, 1.72, 0.66, 1.25,1.38]

3. Create a 2D Visualization

fig2d = plt.figure()
fig2d.add_subplot(1, 1, 1)
plt.scatter(x, y, marker='o', lw=1, s=40, color='blue')
plt.title('Orion 2D')
plt.show()

4. Create a 3D Visualization

fig_3d = plt.figure()
fig_3d.add_subplot(1, 1, 1, projection='3d')
constellation3d = plt.scatter(x, y, z, linewidth=4, marker='s')
plt.title('Orion 3D')
plt.show