Star chart of surrounding area.
Ross 248 was a star located about 10.3 light years from Sol.
On several occasions in 2364, viewscreen readouts aboard the USS Enterprise-D showed the location of Ross 248, in the form of star charts from the Enterprise library computer. (TNG: "The Naked Now", "The Last Outpost", "Conspiracy")
Background
The Enterprise computer's star chart was a drawing by Rick Sternbach that had originally been published, years earlier, on page 77 of the reference titled Spaceflight Chronology. This chart showed Earth commercial and exploration routes in the 2050s and 2060s, but no text attesting to this fact was included in the portion used onscreen, just the labeled names of the stars.
Ross 248 is a real star in the Andromeda constellation. Modern scientists have determined it is spectral class M5.5eV.
External Links
- Ross 248 at Wikipedia
- Ross 248 at the Internet Stellar Database