[Sconesbie (Scott)]

All the star charts I have, either in books or ones I print off, require you to hold them upside down in the air to find the correct placement of the object in the sky. It's a bit hard in the darkness to read the map with one hand holding it and the other hand holding the torch (red light).

Is there another way that other members utilise these maps to make things easier? Last night I tried drawing my own star map based on charts that I have but fear it isn't accurate as trying to do it in reverse doesn't come that easy for me. I've even tried tracing them on paper from the other side of the page of the book or magazine. There's an art to it, that's for sure.

Perhaps magazines and those who prepare the charts could publish them in reverse for us so we can hold them "normally" when outside.

Any thoughts?