Free star charts

john_howard_fisher

these are great for getting to know the sky better. this is one of those things that if you learn it will never change.

download in pdf. it has instructions to show how to use anywhere in the world.

http://www.midnightkite.com/starcharts.html

[sorry that was me that clicked the "enter" button just curious what it did, unfortunately it appears to report my post as spam when it is not. strange thing is that why would someone report their own post as spam i don't know]

Big_Mac_TMMM

Looks interesting. I am interested in star charts.

I've been looking at those circular celestial planesphere thingies (from Phillips) and they seem to need to be set specifically for certain latitudes. From what I can tell the Phillips one allows you to move the window around and get the exact amount of stars in the sky on a specific date of the year.

(But I'm also interested in learning how to make fictional star charts, for a fantasy project, and this download might help me learn how to do that.)

JohnR

A really excellent program is Stellarium http://www.stellarium.com

Its of the quality of a commercial program, but is open source and completely free!

meli89

There's also a great android app called Google Sky Map which is also free