Free star atlas

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Came across this today , a series of pdf files which when printed out make a star atlas going to magnitude seven.

Quoting from the page :

"The Mag-7 Star Atlas plots stars down to Magnitude 7.25, with double / multiple stars indicated by a thin horizontal bar. Plotted DSO's (Deep Sky Objects) include all objects on the Messier list, the RASC's finest NGC list, and the Herschell 400 list --- more than 550 DSO's in total. "

Get it here

Well worth a

[ving (David)]

gunna have to download it me thinks (and print it out)
many thanks

[ving (David)]

printed, now to put them in plastic sleaves. many thanks again

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Have you run a highlighter over all the doubles yet Ving ?

[ving (David)]

lol! no.
haven even thought about it.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

David, don't use a highlighter pen. Those things are fluoro colours and might muck up your night vision LOL

[ving (David)]

lmao!!!
night glow pen needed so i dont have to use a torch

[acropolite (Phil)]

Thanks Geoff got it downloading now. Ving, why don't you pinprick your charts then backlight them....

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Just bought myself a 20 sleeve A4 binder. Printed the maps at work. All up cost $1.60

[h0ughy (David)]

great for the price!

[ving (David)]

Originally posted by Starkler
Just bought myself a 20 sleeve A4 binder. Printed the maps at work. All up cost $1.60

hey I got ripped off!
myn was $2!

just for the record, I used the charts with graeat sucess on saturday night in leo and virgo

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

$1.48 at Officeworks today!

[ving (David)]

I have now written page goto reference around the edges so I know what map joins where

used it to find the ghost of jupiter last night

[iceman (Mike)]

Nice charts.. I wish the M and NGC objects were identified with more than just a red circle, so you could see what type of object they are. At the moment there's nothing to distinguish them as a galaxy, glob, open cluster, nebula etc.

Will print them out though, good charts for the price

[ving (David)]

yup, my fav price too!
you know what tho mike, not knowing what they are isnt bad. you can hunt them down and find out
maybe then make a note of what type of objects they are

[Vermin (Tom)]

I've compiled a chart index listing the constellations alphabetically and by midnight culmination month. Enjoy:

http://www.webclot.com/pub/Index.pdf

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Does anyone know of a place that could print and laminate aswell as bind all these maps onto A3 paper, for a reasonable price (cheap or free)? The A4 gets a little tricky to read.

[ving (David)]

your local library.
mine has the printing facilities, laminating and binding.
its still not cheap tho

[Vermin (Tom)]

You may want to hold off on laminating them, a revised addition with a few corrections could be on the site this weekend. Check out this email I got today:

On May 10, 2005 05:34 am, you wrote:
> Thanks for making these charts available, very handy!
>
> I've compiled a chart index listing the constellations alphabetically
> and by midnight culmination month and I thought others may benefit
> from it. Feel free to add to to your web site if interested.It can be
> found
> here:

[snip]

That's a great addition! I'll add a link to it from my project page this week (any additional credit I can mention? ie: Tom Luttrell of [your website/homepage, or company or whatever here] has compiled a chart index of constellations ...

>
> While on the subject of corrections, a few things I noted when making
> this index (for B&W charts):
>
> The southern constellation Apus is not named.
>
> Scorpius is called Scorpio on one of the three charts it appears on.
>
> Most of the constellations on chart 20 (southern polar region) are in
> black ink, as opposed to the grey used everywhere else.

I hope to be generating a revised edition in the near future (this weekend if possible) and I've put these on my list of things to address, Thanks!

cheers,
andrew

[orions eyes]

Thanks for the link they are pretty handy.