Altazimuth is a collaboration between astronomer Lucas Ellerbroek and designer Neeltje Kromdijk.

'What if we could experience the distances of the stars in a human scale? That was the question arising when Lucas and Neeltje sat together. What is we could see the constellations as we know them, to orientate in the night sky, but now as three dimensional objects?' 

Neeltje started collecting all the data from the stars and Lucas came with a formula to transform the distances from lightyears into centimeters. All you see in the designs, the shapes, colors and brightnesses are the results of this data. You can experience the order of brightness in every constellation, get information about what kind of star it is because of it's color and actual experience the relative proportions of the stars. 

'It is a suprise every time, to see what shape evolves out of the stardata of each constellation, Neeltje says. And so exciting to create these new shapes that are rooted in a very old tradition. 

Altazimuth is a collaboration between astronomer Lucas Ellerbroek and designer Neeltje Kromdijk.

'What if we could experience the distances of the stars in a human scale? That was the question arising when Lucas and Neeltje sat together. What is we could see the constellations as we know them, to orientate in the night sky, but now as three dimensional objects?' 

Neeltje started collecting all the data from the stars and Lucas came with a formula to transform the distances from lightyears into centimeters. All you see in the designs, the shapes, colors and brightnesses are the results of this data. You can experience the order of brightness in every constellation, get information about what kind of star it is because of it's color and actual experience the relative proportions of the stars. 

'It is a suprise every time, to see what shape evolves out of the stardata of each constellation, Neeltje says. And so exciting to create these new shapes that are rooted in a very old tradition. 

Altazimuth is a collaboration between astronomer Lucas Ellerbroek and designer Neeltje Kromdijk.

'Sitting together the question rose; what if we could experience the distances of the stars in a human scale. What is we could see the constellations as we know them, to orientate in the night sky, but now as three dimensional objects?' 

Neeltje started collecting recent data from the stars and Lucas came with a formula to transform the distances from lightyears into centimeters. All you see in the designs, the shapes, colors and brightnesses are the results of this data. You can experience the order of brightness in every constellation, get information about what kind of star it is because of it's color and actual experience the relative proportions of the stars. 

'It is a suprise every time, to see what shape evolves out of the stardata of each constellation, Neeltje says. And so exciting to create these new shapes that are rooted in a very old tradition.