He looked all round as he was surrounded by stars, and laughed. If this was anything like the holoprojector back on the station, he'd just have to move his hands like so... and the star field moved. He made a couple more moves, just to make sure he had it all worked out, and then he was rotating the map round so that it was aligned with the map in his memory.
There was the cluster he was dying to study, over there was a star nursery and right above his head was a binary system. "I've uploaded this section of the map onto Kaya's ship. So... if we head this way for a few light-days..." he said, panning through the map for at least a minute, and then realizing that he'd overshot a little and panning back, and then he grinned.
"How much detail does your map have? How far in can I zoom?" he asked, even as he was zooming in.