Re: Is there some website that will allow me to plot star maps with labelled magnitudes?

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I am interested in observing some of the many Hamburg Quasar Survey
cataclysmic variables for which no AAVSO chart (or any other, as best
as I can tell) has been created. Is there some place on the internet
where I can create such charts? I would need a limiting magnitude down
to about 15.0 or so.

The recent outburst of HS2331+3905 (=V455 Andromedae) to 8th magnitude
suggests that monitoring of these objects might be rewarding, but the
lack of available comparison star charts is surprising, and a real
hindrance!


John Walker's "Your Sky" may be helpful. It uses the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) Star Catalog of more than 258,000 stars with
a limiting magnitude of approximately 9.5.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/

Mike


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