Useful and Handy Charts and Sky Maps
These Monthly Sky Charts give an overall view of the night sky, some with additional observing lists for objects visible for the times and dates indicated.
Print these charts to plan your next observing session and take them with you if you’re heading out to the field. And if you have a complete set of charts from the last 12 months, use the second page as a useful target list. There are collections each month for naked eye, binocular and small telescope objects. These lists are great for beginners and also serve as a list for suburban skies too.
We’ll try and have these updated regularly and available for you as soon as we can scrounge them up.
- June 2008 Spread Sheet
- June Deep Sky Stuff PDF
- June 2008 Star Chart
- June 2008 Sky Map
- July 2008 Star Chart
- July 2008 Sky Map
- August 2008 Sky Map
- August 2008 Star Chart Color
- August 2008 Star Chart BW
- September 2009 Sky Map
- October 2009 Sky Map
- November 2009 Sky Map
- December 2009 Sky Map
- January 2010 Sky Map
- February 2010 Sky Map
- March 2010 Sky Map
- April 2010 Sky Map
- May 2010 Sky Map
- June 2010 Sky Map
- July 2010 Sky Map
- August 2010 Sky Map
- September 2010 Sky Map
- October 2010 Sky Map
- November 2010 Sky Map
- December 2010 Sky Map
- January 2011 Sky Map
- February 2011 Sky Map
- March 2011 Sky Map
- April 2011 Sky Map
- May 2011 Sky Map
- June 2011 Sky Map
- July 2011 Sky Map
Monthly Target Lists
These lists , from www.ngc891.com, contain Open and Globular Clusters, Bright and Planetary Nebula, Gallaxies and the occasional Double Star. Use these if you need a little something to get you beyond the usual M objects. We’ve grouped the Monthly Target List with the appropriate Trion charts, in the next section, to help locate the listed objects.
If any Solar System Objects appear on the charts, remember that over time, these objects will wander, so don’t trust those positions. Also the sep. Trion Charts may have more objects listed than appear on the Monthly Target Lists.
Trion Charts
These 26 Sky Charts are from www.ngc891.com – Each Chart shows a portion of the night sky with an additional target list for each chart. Although these charts don’t have the resolution of some of the expensive printed charts, we’ve put them here to make them conveninet for you to use.
Be sure to look at the Whole Sky Chart and Legend for an orientation to how these charts are arranged and the Object types and symbols used on the charts .
Print these out for use on the field or at home to plan your next observing session. While the location of Stars and Deep Sky Targets will be reasonably well depicted, remember that the position of any Planets shown may not be accurate as they move about against the background Stars. Also the charts 24 through 26 may not be mush use to us in the Northern Hemisphere, but one of you may be lucky enough to venture south, and we wouldn’t want you to go unprepared.