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Old 02-02-2010, 01:14 PM
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Here is a link to a sticky in the Beginners forum to two excellent charts you can print yourself, and a DIY planisphere:

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...73&postcount=1

The first one is great to start out with, with a limiting magnitude of 6.5. If you have access to an A3 printer, better still. Enough stuff on it to keep you happy for years. Also better suited to observing from light polluted areas.

The second is much more detailed, and a finer scale, going down to magnitude 8.5 for stars plotted.

I use both these charts.

This thread also has plans for making you own planisphere which you use to familiarize yourself with the sky, and plan your sessions too, for what ever time of year you want. I still use mine, 25 years on. I can't be bothered with lappies. Red cellofane over a head-mounted torch and the charts is all I use. Have left behind one or the other, or both, at different times, .
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