Special star atlas?

[Mark Wagner]

I'm interested in a star atlas with just stars (dot size = magnitude), and RA/Dec.  No objects shown.  I could do this with a planetarium program. But I'd like paper (and no, I don't want to print pages, and want to ditch the computer observing).

Anyone know of such an atlas exists?

Mark

[Steve Gottlieb]

The last one I recall (other than photographic atlases) is the large-format 3-volume atlas from Antonin Becvar from around 1960-1970 that included Atlas Eclipticalis, Atlas Borealis, and Atlas Australis. The stars were colored by spectral type, but the atlases had no deep sky objects. I never owned this atlas, but I still have my original copy of Becvar’s beautiful Atlas of the Heavens.

The obvious question is Why?

Steve

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[Thomas Taylor]

Except for the objects, Sky's Millennium Star Atlas has what you want down to 11th magnitude.  Objects such as galaxies are shown within various geometric lines such as ellipses, circles, etc.  Objects visible within the 2 dimensional  boundaries but in reality lie outside the object itself are shown drawn to size.  For example M32 or NGC 221 in the Andromeda galaxy.  The atlas is in 3 volumes each covering 8 hour of RA with a scale of 100 arc seconds per mm - about the same as the view in an 8" F-10 telescope.  To find an object you simply thumb through the pages until you get to the charts with the correct hour/minute, and then thumb through the declination charts until the right one shows up.  It was originally published in hardcover for about $300 IIRC but at the time I couldn't afford it and then when I could it naturally was out of print.  Then after some time had passed Sky published a softbound version for around $160 and I immediately pulled the trigger.  The volumes are large, 9.25' x 13" x  l.50" , printed on high quality acid free paper, and heavy.  They command a high price used ($1K or better) but one is currently on ebay for $600 OBA.  One of the volumes that Steve mentioned is also on ebay for $96.