Starship Asterisk*

Thanks very much for that everyone. Now, let me see if I've understood this correctly. 1) The Star Atlas provides a single, objective standard allowing us to know which direction is North, and that direction will point towards the top of the picture. 2) The vast majority of professionally-produced a...

Whenever I see pictures like the ones on this site, I wonder what choices have been made in how they're presented. How much scope is there for the people working on these photographs to impose their own aesthetic preferences? For example, who decides which way up they go? Is this a purely arbitrary ...