The Night Sky Maps – a personal observation
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I too am a devotee of printed atlases.
Thank you for a wonderful record and survey of this new tool.
Clear skies to you sir.
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It would be nice to take all the links given and put them on a sticky on the forum.
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Thanks for your comments Mark. It seems this thread has been given renewed life today, which is a good thing because there are some useful links in there for those that like charts, such as yourself. Take care my friend.Don Quixote wrote: ↑Thu Apr 23, 2020 4:38 pm I just came across this thread this morning Alan.
I too am a devotee of printed atlases.
Thank you for a wonderful record and survey of this new tool.
Clear skies to you sir.
Thanks HP, appreciate your comments. Not sure stickies are used that much here), but for anyone that might find the links useful, they should bookmark them - sort of make them their own personal sticky as it were.The Happy Parrot wrote: ↑Thu Apr 23, 2020 7:04 pm I'd like to pile on to all the praise given here. This is a very useful post.
It would be nice to take all the links given and put them on a sticky on the forum.
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Primary Field Atlases: Uranometria All-Sky Edition and Interstellarum Deep Sky Atlas
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https://vangestel.de/astro/index.php/en/star-maps-pdf
http://decastronomy.org/staratlas.html
https://myscienceshop.com/product/AS011 ... gII4vD_BwE
http://www.jimscosmos.com/
The atlas linked below is not personally recommended by me, but will include it just for the sake of being "inclusive." It does not include constellation boundaries, stick figures or even
http://www.docdb.net/tutorials/deep_sky ... _atlas.php
Then for the truly serious with serious
http://faintfuzzies.com/DownloadableObs ... ides2.html
Scopes: Astro Sky 17.5 f/4.5 Dob || Apertura AD12 f/5 Dob || Zhumell Z10 f/4.9 Dob ||
ES AR127 f/6.5 || ES ED80 f/6 || Apertura 6" f/5 Newtonian
Mounts: ES Twilight-II and Twilight-I
EPs: AT 82° 28mm UWA || TV Ethos 100° 21mm and 13mm || Vixen LVW 65° 22mm ||
ES 82° 18mm || Pentax XW 70° 10mm, 7mm and 5mm || barlows
Filters (2 inch): DGM NPB || Orion Ultra Block, O-III and Sky Glow || Baader HaB
Primary Field Atlases: Uranometria All-Sky Edition and Interstellarum Deep Sky Atlas
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"Astronomers, we look into the past to see our future." (me)
"Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt." (William Herschel)
"What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean." (Sir Isaac Newton)
"No good deed goes unpunished." (various)
“Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?” (Scarecrow, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
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http://www.eyesonthesky.com/StarCharts.aspx
Scopes: Astro Sky 17.5 f/4.5 Dob || Apertura AD12 f/5 Dob || Zhumell Z10 f/4.9 Dob ||
ES AR127 f/6.5 || ES ED80 f/6 || Apertura 6" f/5 Newtonian
Mounts: ES Twilight-II and Twilight-I
EPs: AT 82° 28mm UWA || TV Ethos 100° 21mm and 13mm || Vixen LVW 65° 22mm ||
ES 82° 18mm || Pentax XW 70° 10mm, 7mm and 5mm || barlows
Filters (2 inch): DGM NPB || Orion Ultra Block, O-III and Sky Glow || Baader HaB
Primary Field Atlases: Uranometria All-Sky Edition and Interstellarum Deep Sky Atlas
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"Astronomers, we look into the past to see our future." (me)
"Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt." (William Herschel)
"What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean." (Sir Isaac Newton)
"No good deed goes unpunished." (various)
“Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?” (Scarecrow, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
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