Star atlas

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A Star Atlas is a variant of the traditional geographic atlas, ie. a collection of maps, depicting the permanent and semi-permanent features of the night sky such as stars, constellations of stars, star clusters, galaxies and nebulae.

Historic star atlases

• Poeticon astronomicon
• Uranometria

Modern star atlases

• Bright Star Atlas - Wil Tirion (stars to magnitude 6.5)
• Cambridge Star Atlas - Wil Tirion (Stars to magnitude 6.5)
• Norton's Star Atlas and Reference Handbook - Ed. Ian Ridpath (stars to magnitude 6.5)
• Pocket Sky Atlas - Roger Sinnott (stars to magnitude 7.5)
• Deep Sky Reiseatlas - Michael Feiler, Philip Noack (Telrad Finder Charts - stars to magnitude 7.5)
• Atlas Coeli Skalnate Pleso (Atlas of the Heavens) 1950.0 - Antonin Becvar (stars to magnitude 7.75) Out of print.
• SkyAtlas 2000.0, second edition - Wil Tirion & Roger Sinnott (stars to magnitude 8.5)
• Uranometria 2000.0 Deep Sky Atlas - Wil Tirion, Barry Rappaport, Will Remaklus (stars to magnitude 9.7)
• Millennium Star Atlas - Roger Sinnott, Michael Perryman (stars to magnitude 11)

See also

• Planetarium

External links

• [The Mag-7 Star Atlas Project]

• [Historical Celestial Atlases on the Web]

 

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