Original Description:
With this exclusive collection of all real stars or deep sky objects (DSOs) mentioned in Star Trek, their coordinates and distances in a never achieved precision, thanks to the use of the most recent data from the HIPPARCOS catalogue, and their calculated two-dimensional distances and relative coordinates in the galactic plane, you are now able to draw exact maps of the Star Trek universe for the first time.
The already fourth version of the "Positions of the real stars" contains heavily extended and much more precise information on 39 stars (four additional ones compared with former versions) and on 4 deep space sky objects (in this version for the first time). Also for the first time, the given, different absolute coordinates are based on the revised distance of the sun from the Galactic center: 7.9kpc (25800 ly).
This unique data collection based on a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, which has been continuously developed since October 1999, would not have been possible without the theoretical preliminary work of Masao Okazaki, who helped me to understand what galactic coordinates are and how I can calculate map distances and directions with them, and Bernd Schneider of Ex Astris Scientia, who submitted the first HIPPARCOS figures of the most important stars to me.