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A work in progress that shows what you are trying to create:
The above work in progress is for winter. It shows how to label the right ascension and declination axes, and shows a good legend for the stars of various magnitudes. You will need to make the right ascension axis go from 16h to 24h rather than from 0h to 8h. Note that it ascends as you go left, not right. The late summer and fall chart will have one star of magnitude 0, four of magnitude 1, seventeen of magnitude 2, and many more of magnitude 3.
You should probably put the names and symbols in very lightly until you have placed all the stars, because you will have to move lots of them as you keep adding stars. Do everything in pencil and have a good eraser standing by.
By the way, you are only doing the stars from right ascension 16h to 24h and declination -52.5° to +52.5°. This is roughly 1/4 of the sky visible at latitude 38° throughout the year. The part of the sky you are doing includes the stars you would be looking at when facing south in mid-September at around 9pm (daylight savings time) in the evening. (Deep Springs is always on daylight savings time.)
In other words, you are only doing the stars with a checkmark in the 16h-24h column.
The Simbad database query results needed to create the chart.
