Since its beta I'm hoping some of these ideas will help make it into a better version when released to "production". If you have questions or wish to report bugs, please email us at. Note: We are releasing this new-and-improved sky chart as a beta. This option is great for star parties and other astronomy outreach.įinally, we’ve updated the look and feel of the sky chart, matching it as closely as makes sense to the central sky chart available in every month’s issue of Sky & Telescope. The PDF print option (icon in the upper right-hand corner) now works seamlessly, rendering a beautiful black-on-white sky chart for ease of printing. (Among other things, the option is useful for viewing star positions during a total solar eclipse!) My favorite is the daytime option: turn off the Sun and see what stars are up during the daytime. There are a couple of new options that weren’t there before, too. You can change the selected view by moving the green-outlined box on the full sky chart.Īlso as before, you have the option to customize your sky chart: show constellation lines and boundaries, label stars and planets, and more. The selected view is designed to mimic what you actually see when you head outside at night, so that you don’t have to rotate star patterns in your head. A selected view appears on the left that shows a section of sky (via stereographic projection, to minimize distortion) along the horizon. And when you call up the Interactive Sky Chart on your mobile device, it’ll work there too.Īs before, the Interactive Sky Chart shows two customizable views of the naked-eye night sky for any date, time, and location: A full-sky view shows the Moon, as well as all the bright stars and planets visible to the naked eye for a given time and location. What that means for you, the user, is that there won’t be any more hoops to jump through just to get the sky chart to work. The new version of the Interactive Sky Chart runs natively in the browser, no plugin required. We made the move because Java was never supported on iPhones or iPads, and some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, have also stopped supporting the software plugin. The biggest development is that we’ve moved the code base that runs the Interactive Sky Chart from a Java-based platform to an HTML5 platform. * Thanks to Andreas Siess for having compiled the raw data that make this tool possible! * The color temperature presets provided here (e.g.: Flash = 5000K) are just approximations and the actual values are often in a range instead of being a clear-cut value.At long last, I’m proud to announce the release of Sky & Telescope’s much-loved Interactive Sky Chart! We worked with Chris Peat ( ) to make a number of changes - the vast majority of them under the hood - so that you’ll have a reliable sky chart that you can take with you into the night. ◉ When shooting RAW, the white balance setting in your camera is not as important because white balance can always be changed in post-production.◉ You can also make use of colored gels, color temperature orange (CTO) and color temperature blue (CTB), to color correct certain areas of your scene or for creative effects.You can however make creative use of white balance for cooler or warmer results and create a different mood in your images. ◉ Normally you'll want to set your white balance to match the color temperature of the source, for a neutral images. It works in the opposite direction to color temperature (higher white balance settings for warmer images, lower white balance setting for cooler images). ◉ White balance is the camera's way to neutralize the color temperature so that whites appear white.◉ Lower color temperature sources appear warmer and more orange while higher color temperature sources appear cooler and more blue.
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