got these from our 304 sneak peek thread
I was hoping the stars might be the constellation Phoenix, but it’s hard to tell. I suspect they are just random patterns of dots. I do see some similarities to Phoenix, but nothing conclusive, so the similarities may just be in my head. If anyone wants to try comparing them, here is a map of the constellation Phoenix:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Phoenix_IAU.svg
I could almost convince myself that the bunch of stars forming a vertical line near the middle of the image from Bae’s cave are formed by the stars Delta Phoenicis, Beta Phoenicis, and Alpha Phoenicis shown in the chart. If you do that, then there is indeed a star in the right place to be Gamma Phoenicis, forming an equilateral triangle with Delta and Beta Phoenicis, as well as a star on the other side of the line in the right place to be Epsilon Phoenicis. Alas, the brightest star in Bae’s image, the one at the lower left, is completely unaccounted for. Likewise, the brightest star on the actual star map, Alpha Eridani, is nowhere to be seen in Bae’s map. Of course, Hook did say the map was encoded, so they have a perfect excuse for not drawing an accurate map.
I’ll try to make time to download the image from Bae’s cave and draw in the constellation lines to better illustrate what I’m trying to describe. If I do, I’ll post it here later.