With their unique and slightly mysterious look, star charts attempt to capture what we see and what we know about the night sky. Styles have evolved over time, from elaborate decorated maps of ...

Our star chart is designed to get you out learning the night sky within a matter of moments. Just set it for your time and location, make a few tweaks if you like for personal taste, and print it out.

We're hoping you won't stop with the film and website but will get outside and have a look at the splendors of the night sky ... Your Sky Tonight, our digital star chart can be customized for ...

There are two ways to use a star map. First, we can go from the sky to the map. Suppose, for example, we spot a fairly bright star halfway from the southeastern horizon to the zenith (the map’s center ...

If you're a stargazer, you may be interested to know how to measure the darkness of your night ... the sky to be measured. If you aren’t constellation-savvy, a stargazing app or star chart ...

On a May evening many years ago, I made my first exploration of the night sky. The only star pattern I could recognize was the Big Dipper, but with a star chart in a book, I used that to discover ...

A keyed series of six finder charts shows readers how the atlas maps relate to the current night sky. Wil Tirion also created the more detailed The Cambridge Star Atlas 2000.0, which adds about ...

Globe at Night participants report which of a set of eight star charts best matches what they observe in the sky and each chart shows the sky under different levels of light pollution. Light ...

Stargazers are thrilled over the surprise appearance of a star explosion, known as a nova, in the night sky last week ... identified by using a star chart or sky atlas. Novas that become ...

With Citizen Science… Participants look at their night sky, and then report which of a set of eight star charts best matches what they see using an online form. Each chart shows the sky under ...

People looking for something different to do while spending more time at home can take a moment to go outside and simply look up at the night sky this ... northeast. A star chart or smart phone ...