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bojan
25-12-2006, 10:53 AM
Hi folks,
anyone knbows where to download (free of charge) the maps of Magellanic clouds?
Bojan

snowyskiesau
25-12-2006, 11:45 AM
cartes du ciel is free and has a lot of available catalogues. It's a good place to start.
http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/

glenc
25-12-2006, 02:40 PM
Here is the SMC from SkyMapPro.

bojan
26-12-2006, 12:17 PM
Thanks! :-)

Argonavis
26-12-2006, 12:36 PM
Correct me if I am wrong, but in my experience, the planetarium type programs don't do a good job of depicting the Clouds.

There is:

Morel M. (1983) “A Visual Atlas of the Large Magellanic Cloud”, Mati Morel, 30pp + 7 charts and
Morel, M. (2001) “LMC Visual Atlas”, Morel Astrographics.

which I was able to borrow from my local astro club library (and this, in my opinion, is what belonging to a club is all about - having access to a specialist library). But even these I found detailed and almost confusing. The clouds are depicted in Uranametria 2000 quite well, but the scale is fairly small.

I do have some other maps in electronic format if you would like to PM me.