Star atlas

A Star Atlas is a variant of the traditional geographic atlas, ie. a collection of maps, depicting the permanent and semi-permanent features of the night sky such as stars, constellations of stars, star clusters, galaxies and nebulae.

Historic star atlases

* Poeticon astronomicon
* Uranometria

Modern star atlases

* Bright Star Atlas - Wil Tirion (stars to magnitude 6.5)
* Cambridge Star Atlas - Wil Tirion (Stars to magnitude 6.5)
* Norton's Star Atlas and Reference Handbook - Ed. Ian Ridpath (stars to magnitude 6.5)
* Pocket Sky Atlas - Roger Sinnott (stars to magnitude 7.5)
* Deep Sky Reiseatlas - Michael Feiler, Philip Noack (Telrad Finder Charts - stars to magnitude 7.5)
* Atlas Coeli Skalnate Pleso (Atlas of the Heavens) 1950.0 - Antonin Becvar (stars to magnitude 7.75) Out of print.
* SkyAtlas 2000.0, second edition - Wil Tirion & Roger Sinnott (stars to magnitude 8.5)
* Uranometria 2000.0 Deep Sky Atlas - Wil Tirion, Barry Rappaport, Will Remaklus (stars to magnitude 9.7)
* Millennium Star Atlas - Roger Sinnott, Michael Perryman (stars to magnitude 11)
* Field Guide to the Stars and Planets - Jay M. Pasachoff, Wil Tirion charts (reduced size with a full Tirion sky atlas)

See also

* Planetarium

External links

* The Mag-7 Star Atlas Project
* Historical Celestial Atlases on the Web