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The night sky atlas is an interactive map of the entire night sky.
It allows viewing any part of the sky and creating sky chart images and printouts.
The default atlas view is today's point in the sky approximately opposite to the sun.
It is visible tonight, during most of the night from anywhere on Earth except near the poles.
The declination defaults to +15 degrees, just enter
your geographic latitude
for the declination to see what's directly overhead at midnight tonight.
Then add or subtract 1 hour to the default right ascension for each hour after or before midnight, respectively.
The form fields for viewing a portion of the sky and their ranges are:
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| The night sky atlas creates images of the entire night sky independent of location and time on earth. Detailed chart images include all stars visible to the naked eye, the constellations, Messier objects, and names of the brightest stars. Data sources: Bright Star Catalog from the Astronomical Data Center, Messier Objects from the Digitized Sky Survey Messier Objects Data, Star names list from Steven Gibson. The data used in this product, in whole or in part, is used with permission of The NGC/IC Project LLC. Many thanks go to those who maintain and make available their astronomy datasets without which this sky atlas would not have been possible. Permission for any use of these chart images is granted, provided that the original website address remains visible on all images. Enjoy! |
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