#Skychart outline how to#
#Skychart outline pdf#

The selected view is designed to mimic what you actually see when you head outside at night, so that you don’t have to rotate star patterns in your head. You can change the selected view by moving the green-outlined box on the full sky chart.Īlso as before, you have the option to customize your sky chart: show constellation lines and boundaries, label stars and planets, and more. There are a couple of new options that weren’t there before, too. (Among other things, the option is useful for viewing star positions during a total solar eclipse!) My favorite is the daytime option: turn off the Sun and see what stars are up during the daytime.

#Skychart outline pdf#

The PDF print option (icon in the upper right-hand corner) now works seamlessly, rendering a beautiful black-on-white sky chart for ease of printing. This option is great for star parties and other astronomy outreach.įinally, we’ve updated the look and feel of the sky chart, matching it as closely as makes sense to the central sky chart available in every month’s issue of Sky & Telescope. Note: We are releasing this new-and-improved sky chart as a beta. If you have questions or wish to report bugs, please email us at. Since its beta I'm hoping some of these ideas will help make it into a better version when released to 'production'.

#Skychart outline how to#

□ġ - It wasn't obvious how to move the green quadrilateral around, maybe a hint somewhere on the site would help first time users.Ģ- Hard to use the green triangle when trying to cover the sky near the zenith. If that can be fixed you'll need a way to rotate it since you can be looking at the zenith from multiple directions on the ground depending on which way your feet are pointing.ģ - Can you make the sky&tel logo disappear (maybe make than another option) as it covers up a good portion of the top left hand corner of the selected view.Ĥ - It would be great if we could zoom in/out of the selected view making the quadrilateral larger or smaller. It was impossible to get the full view of some of the larger constellations like Andromeda and Ursa Major.