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Questions tagged [star-maps]

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What do the calendar rounds in Tomás Filsingers "Map of the Universe 2.000" mean?

Recently I did the Ravensburger puzzle "Map of the Universe 2.000 - Celestial Chart and Calendar Rounds" by Tomás Filsinger: Tomás said the last time he visited this site in 2019, that he finished a new, improved map. I recognize some of the…
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What projection would I use to map the northern night sky onto a geodesic dome?

I'm trying to create a geodesic dome with the stars of the northern night sky inscribed on the outside. The highest point of the dome would be the celestial north pole. How do I create a map that projects onto the "net" of the geodesic dome, such…
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In the Cambridge Star Atlas 2000.0, two of the horizon line labels are flipped on one side of the page. Typo, or is there a reason?

I recently acquired the Cambridge Star Atlas 2000.0, and noticed something odd when taking it out observing. On the north side of the month-to-month star charts, the Mercator latitude indicators at the 20 degree marks appear flipped on the right…
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Calculating historical star maps from proper motion

I'm working on some software which needs to calculate the position of stars and galaxies visible to the naked eye at different periods of human history. The Yale Bright Star Catalogue gives the position and proper motion of visible stars. Is…
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I am looking for the SKYMAP Api (To create nightsky/star maps)

The ones used by underluckystars.com and thenightsky.com I have found several but I am having difficulty finding a working updated version, has anyone come across this API, or know where I can find it?
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2D Distorted Star Map for Pasting on Sphere Surface

Are there printable 2D star maps that are distorted such that, when printed, they can be cut (along printed lines) to be applied to the outside of a sphere to represent the celestial sphere, as seen from the center of the substrate sphere? Is there…
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Are Right Ascension and Declination from an "inside" perspective?

When reading up on celestial globes it talks about handedness and that many celestial globes are reversed so that the constellations appear as they do from earth. I'm trying to arrange some bright stars on an overlay of the earth, using Right…
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How should I draw the horizon on a sky map?

Is there any way of drawing the horizon on sky maps similar to the one attached? This is the complete chart in Stellarium:
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make a celestial map from deep sky images

I take pictures of deep sky objects and I would like to make a celestial map that contains the pictures in the right position in the sky. Ideally something like stellarium. (but in stellarium it's hard and you have generated stars on top of the…
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