Find what you want to see with astronomy star charts

Do you enjoy looking at the stars in the night sky, but don't know what or where to look. Using astronomy star charts is a great way for you to organize where and what you want to look at. Now beginning astronomers can look up at the stars with their chart and see much more than ever before.

An astronomy star chart will give you close-up locations for viewing the major stars and planets that dominate our sky. Astronomy charts give tips for tracking comets, asteroids, and meteors. Star charts offer easy ways to identify different stars. Find a dark area away from lights and with a good view of the night sky. Then after 10 minutes youe eyes will adapt to the dark and you see many stars.

Some charts astronomers use to locate stars are better than others. At the lower level, charts map out the constellations and bright stars. Astronomy magazines offer these kinds of resources. Wil Tirions "Bright Star Atlas" gives you greater detail, offering a greater selection of deep sky objects and stars to the 6th magnitude.

One of the best resources for locating celestial objects is the Uranometric 2000.0. It is two volumns and charts 300,000 stars to magnitude 9.5 as well as 10,300 non-stellar objects. The "Millenium Star Atlas" charts more than a million stars to the 11th magnitude. If that is too big you may want to opt instead, and use a computer sky atlas.