About

Hello 👋 I'm Steve Berardi — a software engineer and amateur astronomer who loves creating maps of the sky. Starplotting is my blog where I share a lot of the maps I make (and usually include the source code). I create all my maps with Starplot, an open-source Python library I built which is now used by astronomers and astrophysicists around the world.

I’ve been fascinated by sky maps ever since buying my first telescope eyepiece from Explore Scientific and seeing those beautiful maps by Wil Tirion on the box. Then I started collecting sky atlases, which eventually inspired me to try and create them.

Happy Starplotting!