If you're looking at getting into the hobby of amateur astronomy, you will need a road map of the sky to find your way!

Here are some great resources for online star charts, and the best thing is that they are free!

Both are in Adobe PDF format, so you'll need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader which can be found HERE.

www.skymaps.com - offers a great one sheet star chart that will give you the general locations of stars and constellations for the sky this time of the year.

http://www.uv.es/jrtorres/triatlas.html - This website offers a detailed star atlas of the nightsky at three different levels. If you are looking to find faint deep sky stuff, this is where you'll need the detailed info.

Category: general -- posted at: 9:29 PM
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