Constellation Map By Date And Location

In fact, by the 19th century the night sky had become crowded with overlapping and often contradictory constellation boundaries and names as different schools of astronomy prepared their own versions of star maps. The earliest known western maps of the skies of the northern and southern hemispheres with both stars and constellation figures date from 1440; Just set your location and time and start exploring the starry sky, find planets and constellations, and much more.

Most of the stars will rise in the east and set in the west. Sun enters constellation scorpius (241.08 o) nov 30, 2015: A star at the zenith will have a declination equal to the latitude on earth.

Just like the sun moves across the sky during the day the stars will move across the sky during the night.

As far as right ascension goes, well around the march equinox then stars with 12 hours in right ascension will reach their highest point (culmination) at local midnight. All sky maps are used to located stars and other objects in the sky for a certain date, time and observing location. In reality, the planets and their respective moons (most of them anyway) orbit the sun about the same plane. If you wish to have an impression of.