Star Atlas in Galactic Perspective and Comments on Star Atlas in Galactic Perspective.
Copyright © 1972, 2001-2006 R.S. Fritzius
Installed 25 Sept 2001 - Latest Update 28 Feb 2006.
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 horizontal line is being constructed on the map to represent the galactic
equator. This line is not completely straight
because of the celestial coordinates position errors mentioned above.
The approximate position of the projected South Lunar Pole is shown just
North (Celestial 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
