New Interactive Map Of The Southern Sky


The Australian National University has released the almost detailed interactive map of the southern sky. The Southern Sky Viewer allows y'all to explore nearly 300 meg stars together with galaxies that tin locomote endure seen from the southern hemisphere.

The map is made from images captured yesteryear a specially-built, wide-field survey telescope at Siding Spring Observatory close Coonabarabran. The basemap is made upward of 70,000 ultra-high-resolution images, which way that y'all tin locomote zoom-in on the map to attempt stars, nebula together with galaxies inwards unopen detail.

The map doesn't look to include an alternative to link to specific views on the map. However the map does include a search alternative which allows y'all to search for features yesteryear mention or yesteryear position. Try searching for these:

Centaurus A
Horsehead Nebula
Carina Nebula
Alpha Carinae
Helix Nebula
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