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Star Atlas in Galactic Perspective


Installed 12 October 2001- Latest update 8 November 2001
Also see:
Star Map in Galactic Perspective and Comments on Star Atlas in Galactic Perspective.

Below are extracts from a 1972 Star Atlas by R.S. Fritzius. You may scroll through the images horizontally and vertically.

Cartographic detail is based on Antonin Becvar's Atlas of the Heavens - Atlas Coeli 1950.0 Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences - 1958. The stippled Milky Way likeness is based on Lund Observatory's Panorama of the Heavens Copyright © 1958. (Used with permission.)

Star positions were plotted by eyeball. Position accuracy is generally +/- 1 degrees. Two mis-spelled constellations and one slightly displaced constellation have been corrected. (One constellation evaded getting drawn on the North Galactic Polar Plot.) A general cleanup of star versus background, along with position and magnitude is in progress. See Commentary on Star Atlas

Polar Plots, Constellations Index, and Zenith Lookup

Send comments/questions to Robert Fritzius at fritzius@bellsouth.net
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