Interactive Map Of The Southern Sky

The Australian National University has released the nearly detailed interactive map of the southern sky. The Southern Sky Viewer allows you lot to explore nearly 300 1 M one thousand stars as well as galaxies that tin move seen from the southern hemisphere.

The map is made from images captured yesteryear a specially-built, wide-field survey telescope at Siding Spring Observatory nigh Coonabarabran. The basemap is made upwards of 70,000 ultra-high-resolution images, which agency that you lot tin zoom-in on the map to essay stars, nebula as well as galaxies inwards unopen detail.

The map doesn't seem to include an selection to link to specific views on the map. However the map does include a search selection which allows you lot to search for features yesteryear cite or yesteryear position. Try searching for these:

Centaurus A
Horsehead Nebula
Carina Nebula
Alpha Carinae
Helix Nebula