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title: "Celestial cartography"
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chunk: 2/2
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_cartography"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T07:44:07.144413+00:00"
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instance: "kb-cron"
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=== Modern ===
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Bright Star Atlas – Wil Tirion (stars to magnitude 6.5)
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Cambridge Star Atlas – Wil Tirion (Stars to magnitude 6.5)
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Norton's Star Atlas and Reference Handbook – Ed. Ian Ridpath (stars to magnitude 6.5)
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Stars & Planets Guide – Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion (stars to magnitude 6.0)
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Cambridge Double Star Atlas – James Mullaney and Wil Tirion (stars to magnitude 7.5)
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Cambridge Atlas of Herschel Objects – James Mullaney and Wil Tirion (stars to magnitude 7.5)
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Pocket Sky Atlas – Roger Sinnott (stars to magnitude 7.5)
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Deep Sky Reiseatlas – Michael Feiler, Philip Noack (Telrad Finder Charts – stars to magnitude 7.5)
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Atlas Coeli Skalnate Pleso (Atlas of the Heavens) 1950.0 – Antonín Bečvář (stars to magnitude 7.75 and about 12,000 clusters, galaxies and nebulae)
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SkyAtlas 2000.0, second edition – Wil Tirion & Roger Sinnott (stars to magnitude 8.5)
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1987, Uranometria 2000.0 Deep Sky Atlas – Wil Tirion, Barry Rappaport, Will Remaklus (stars to magnitude 9.7; 11.5 in selected close-ups)
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Herald-Bobroff AstroAtlas – David Herald & Peter Bobroff (stars to magnitude 9 in main charts, 14 in selected sections)
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Millennium Star Atlas – Roger Sinnott, Michael Perryman (stars to magnitude 11)
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Field Guide to the Stars and Planets – Jay M. Pasachoff, Wil Tirion charts (stars to magnitude 7.5)
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SkyGX (still in preparation) – Christopher Watson (stars to magnitude 12)
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The Great Atlas of the Sky – Piotr Brych (2,400,000 stars to magnitude 12, galaxies to magnitude 18).
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Interstellarum Deep Sky Atlas (2014) – Ronald Stoyan and Stephan Schurig (stars to magnitude 9.5)
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=== Computerized ===
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100,000 Stars
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Cartes du Ciel
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Celestia
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Stars and Planets for Android
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Stars and Planets for iOS
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CyberSky
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GoSkyWatch Planetarium
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Google Sky
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KStars
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Stellarium
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SKY-MAP.ORG
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SkyMap Online
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WorldWide Telescope
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XEphem, for Unix-like systems
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Stellarmap.com – online map of the stars
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Star Walk and Kepler Explorer OpenLab: 2 celestial cartography apps for smartphones
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SpaceEngine
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=== Free and printable from files ===
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The TriAtlas Project
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DeepSky Hunter Star Atlas
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Andrew Johnson mag 7
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== See also ==
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Star chart
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Astrometry
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Cosmography
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Cheonsang Yeolcha Bunyajido
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History of cartography
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Planetarium
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PP3
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== References ==
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== External links ==
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Star Maps from Ian Ridpath's Star Tales website.
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The Mag-7 Star Atlas Project Archived 2014-07-02 at the Wayback Machine
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Historical Celestial Atlases on the Web
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Felice Stoppa's ATLAS COELESTIS, an extensive collection of 51 star maps and other astronomy related books stored as a multitude of images.
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Monthly star maps for every location on Earth Archived 2007-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
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Easy to use monthly star maps for northern and southern hemispheres. Helpful target lists for naked eye, binocular, or telescope viewing.
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Collection of rare star atlases, charts, and maps Archived 2018-03-25 at the Wayback Machine available in full digital facsimile at Linda Hall Library.
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Navigable online map of the stars Archived 2020-04-18 at the Wayback Machine, Stellarmap.com.
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The Digital Collections of the Linda Hall Library include:
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"Astronomy: Star Atlases, Charts, and Maps" Archived 2020-10-20 at the Wayback Machine, a collection of more than 60 star atlas volumes.
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"Astronomy: Selected Images Archived 2017-08-01 at the Wayback Machine, a collection of high-resolution star map images.
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"History of Cosmology: Views of the Stars" Archived 2017-11-07 at the Wayback Machine, high-resolution scans of prints relating to the study of the structure of the cosmos. |