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Star atlas

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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.

Examples of historic star atlases:

Examples of modern star atlases:

  • Antonin Becvar's Atlas Coeli Skalnate Pleso
  • Wil Tirion's SkyAtlas 2000.0
  • Uranometria 2000.0.


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