Spacepod Astrogation Console

	The Spacepod Astrogation Console
This is where the Spacepod star maps can be accessed. This page requires JavaScript™ to be enabled in your browser and as high a resolution as your monitor can stand. You will probably have to scroll around to see all of the maps. The maps below show the night sky as it should appear this month from both hemispheres of the Earth. The curve marked "N", "NE", "E", etc. is the observer's horizon line and the centre of the map is the zenith point. If you face south and look directly overhead, you will see the sky as drawn in these maps. Turn the map around if you prefer to look north.	The upper map shows the sky as seen from the location of Geneva, Switzerland (latitude 47° 34´ north) and anywhere else on the same line of latitude. Observers in the northern hemisphere at higher latitudes than Geneva will see less of the stars near the southern horizon and more stars at the northern horizon and vice versa for lower latitudes. The lower map shows the sky as seen from the location of Sydney, Australia (latitude 33° 52´ south). Observers in the southern hemisphere will see more or less the same sky with the same provisions as for the northern hemisphere map.
	These maps were created using the excellent StarGazer´s Delight program from StarGazerSoft. For those of you who really want to know: the maps are completely accurate for 10pm on the 15th of the month.


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The Spacepod Astrogation Console