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The galactic coordinates now in use are not the same that were used on the 1972 map. In each of the polar plots below a line for LII = 0 deg is shown.
To see a track for Halley's Comet in it's 12 BC apparition, overlaid on this polar plot, goto halley12.htm. The Star Map above is a colorized version of a pen and ink 1972 Star Atlas by R.S. Fritzius The two-color Milky Way representation and other cartographic details are based on Antonn Becvr's Atlas of the Heavens - Atlas Coeli 1950.0 Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences - 1958. The outlines of the Milky Way are according to: A. Pannekoek, Die nrdliche Milchstrasse (Leiden, 1920); A. Pannekoek, Die sdliche Milchstrasse (Lembang, 1929). The 1972 star atlas has an uncertain amount of eyeball subjectivity as to star magnitudes and positions. The same can be said with regard to the positions of portions of the equatorial grid itself. Some of these magnitude and position errors are being reduced on this map. Also, I estimate that only about 60 percent of the stars brighter than mag 3.5 actually made it onto the original star atlas. The missing stars are gradually being installed. A "post 1958" galactic-coordinates grid is gradually being added to the map. It's lines will not completely straight because of the equatorial lines position errors mentioned above. The black galactic equator corresponds to Newcomb's pole. The post-1958 galactic equator (shown in black) is tilted about 1.5 degrees with respect to the pre-1958 galactic equator (shown in blue). They coincide at 0 and 180 degrees galactic longitude. Galaxy Number Density contours are being installed in the polar maps. The units for these densities are in galaxies per square degree. The patterns are based on the galaxies plotted in Becvr's Atlas of the Heavens. The density contours shown are not locked in stone. By sliding the analysis grid(*) around, different (but related) families of curves would be generated. Contour lines are eyeball generated. (*) Each bin in the grid is 3.16 degrees by 3.16 degrees square.
Outlines of well known astronomical images that are shown on the map
The Galactic Center - Naval Research Laboratory Radio Image - Center The Annotated Galactic Center - Astronomy Picture of the Day - November 11, 1997 - Center. The Crab Nebula and Geminga in Gamma Rays - Left and Right edges - Caution! There are about 16 DEGREES of angular separation between these two objects.