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Old January 7th 07, 03:20 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default advice on planishperes


Tater wrote:
I've been given some money in my paypal account from revver and am
thinking on buying some stuff. I noticed a planisphere at barnes and
noble localy that they had at $25 and i've seen a differetn one on ebay
for $15. can someone suggest if one or another is better?


Hi:

Yes. My choices?

If you want a BIGUN, David Levy's planisphere is big and good.

Otherwise, I think the David Chandler Night Sky Planisphere is about as
good as it gets. Many of you may remember Mr. Chandler as the author of
one of the early deep sky observing programs, Deep Space 3D (from way
back in the DOS ages ;-)).

http://www.davidchandler.com/nightsky.htm

Uncle Rod