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A work in progress that shows what you are trying to create:
The above work in progress shows how to label the right ascension and declination axes, and shows a good legend for the stars of various magnitudes. This chart will have one star of magnitude -1, four of magnitude 0, three of magnitude 1, twenty of magnitude 2, and many more of magnitude 3. The especially abundant bright stars are what gives the winter sky such splendor.
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 0h to 8h 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-January at around 8pm (standard time) in the evening. (Since Deep Springs stays on daylight savings time the chart is better for mid-January at 9pm.)
In other words, you are only doing the stars with a checkmark in the 0h-8h column.
The Simbad database query results needed to create the chart.
