Sky Chart / Cartes du Ciel

GAIA EDR3 GAIA EDR3 is now available and can be used with Skychart [M13 with GAIA EDR3] The Gaia Early Data Release 3, consist of astrometry, photometry, radial velocities, astrophysical parameters and variability information for about 1.8 billion sources brighter than magnitude 21.

News ---------- GAIA EDR3 December 17 2020 The GAIA early data release 3 is now available and can be used with Skychart ---------- Version 4.2.1 November 24 2019 ---------- Version 4.2 October 17 2019 ---------- GAIA DR2 June 11 2018 The second GAIA data release is now available and can be used with Skychart

Want even more stars ? Making a map of any part of the sky with all the stars to magnitude 20 was only a dream for many years. Then a few solutions have emerged like USNO-A and USNO-B catalog. The old version of CdC can even get this data online for a limited area but the full USNO-B download was not available.

Version 4.2.1 This version is mainly to fix some bug with the version 4.2 but it also introduce a few new features New functions * Add telescope handpad for ASCOM and INDI * Change Neighbour button to obey Object list setting, increase search radius to show at least 10 objects

News ---------- Version 4.2.1 November 24 2019 ---------- Version 4.2 October 17 2019 ---------- GAIA DR2 June 11 2018 The second GAIA data release is now available and can be used with Skychart ---------- A new look for Skychart October 2 2017 ---------- Version 4.0 March 19 2017 ---------- GAIA DR1 September 15 2016

Version 4.2 New functions * New default interface with only two button bar. * New icon for the buttons, better suited for night vision filters. Use larger image for big buttons and high resolution screen. * Add direct connection to Alpaca ... [More] telescope. It is now possible to use a telescope connected to a remote ASCOM Windows computer from Skychart running on Linux or macOS. [Less]

News ---------- Version 4.2 October 17 2019 ---------- GAIA DR2 June 11 2018 The second GAIA data release is now available and can be used with Skychart ---------- A new look for Skychart October 2 2017 ---------- Version 4.0 March 19 ... [More] 2017 ---------- GAIA DR1 September 15 2016 The first GAIA data release is now available and can be used with Skychart [Less]

GAIA DR2 The second GAIA data release is now available and can be used with Skychart [M13 with GAIA DR2] The second Gaia data release, Gaia DR2, consist of astrometry, photometry, radial velocities, astrophysical parameters and variability information for about 1.7 billion sources brighter than magnitude 21.