Star Atlas in Galactic Perspective and Comments on Star Atlas in Galactic Perspective.
Copyright © 1972, 2001-2008 R.S. Fritzius
Installed 25 Sept 2001 - Latest Update 30 Sep 2008.
The Milky way color scheme is based on Antonin Becvar's Atlas of the
Heavens - Atlas Coeli 1950.0
Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences - 1958.
The outlines of the Milky Way are according to:
A. Pannekoek, Die nördliche Milchstrasse (Leiden, 1920);
A. Pannekoek, Die südliche Milchstrasse (Lembang, 1929).
The 1972 map has an uncertain amount of eyeball subjectivity
as to star sizes and positions. The same can be said
with regard to the locations of the celestial coordinates
themselves. These position errors are gradually being
reduced on this version.
A galactic coordinates grid is slowly being added to the map.
It's lines will not completely straight because of the
celestial coordinates position errors mentioned above.
Projected South Lunar Pole (just North of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
The coordinates for the Large Magellanic Cloud are approximately:
Equatorial RA 05 hrs 23.6 min, Dec -69 deg 45 min
Galactic LII 280.4136 deg, BII -32.9310 deg
The galactic coordinates now in use are not the same that were used on the 1972 map. In each of the polar plots below a line for LII = 0 deg is shown.
