(5) Magnitude of Faintest Star: 8.5 (over 88,000 stars) (3) Scale: 8.4mm/degree Sky Atlas 2000.0 Second Ed.: 8.2mm/degree

(1) Projection: Modified Transverse Mercator Projection I will welcome your comments or suggestions for improvement.

I uploaded the version with constellation lines in the file names starting with 'c'. Maximilien Ranc in France kindly added constellation lines to the charts. The same projection method and symbols are used in the both atlases. Combination with my earlier star atlas will be a useful tool for deep sky observation. Smaller format is easier to be used at a telescope. I decided that the next star atlas would be a substitute of Sky Atlas 2000.0, because Sky Atlas 2000 is too big (charts unfold to 21x16') for using at telescope.

Using the same technique I developed for the earlier star atlas, I thought that it would be rather easy to produce a more detailed star atlas. 103), I planned a next project of star atlas. After completing Taki's Online Star Atlas (introduced in Sky & Telescope, June 2005, p.

Star Atlas free