planisphere for light-polluted skies?

I just wandered over to Sky and Telescope's web site, and found an ad
for their Night Sky planisphere, which I assume is different from their
Sky and Telescope planisphere, probably in containing fewer of those
confusing stars and things. The web page for the Night Sky planisphere
says that it's especially useful for beginners under light-polluted
skies. Aha, already very enlightened. Well, what would be the ultimate
in planispheres for light-polluted skies. I'm sure you can imagine.

Actually, I had already created, for my son's fourth-grade class last
year, a planisphere with just the very basics. You can find it at

http://astro.isi.edu/notes/planisphere.pdf

It contains a few of the better-known constellations and asterisms: Big
Dipper, Summer Triangle, Leo, Orion, Canis Major, Taurus, Gemini,
Scorpius and Sagittarius, Cassiopeia; it also has the ecliptic printed
on it. It's nothing you can't find anywhere else, but perhaps it will
be of some use for kids since it has fewer of those confusing stars.

For those of you who aren't living under light-polluted skies, here's a
more effusive free planisphe

http://cp.c-ij.com/english/3D-paperc...archart_e.html

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Brian Tung wrote:
[...]
http://astro.isi.edu/notes/planisphere.pdf

It contains a few of the better-known constellations and asterisms: Big
Dipper, Summer Triangle, Leo, Orion, Canis Major, Taurus, Gemini,
Scorpius and Sagittarius, Cassiopeia; it also has the ecliptic printed
on it. It's nothing you can't find anywhere else, but perhaps it will
be of some use for kids since it has fewer of those confusing stars.
[...]

Cool! Thanks!

For those interested in other planispheres (though I still have some
15+
more to add to the page "one of these days, time permitting"):

http://thadlabs.com/ASTRO/Planispheres/

For those interested in other
planispheres (though I still have some
15+
more to add to the page "one of these
days, time permitting"):
http://thadlabs.com/ASTRO/Planisphere
s/

Thanks! That's a neat bunch of planispheres! I've managed to
accumulate most of the common ones from the 1890's on up through the
1950's. When one gets into less common ones, or older ones than that
though, the prices tend to get, well, a little too astronomical for me.
Marty