Celestron uses the 80 brightest stars for the stars that can be used duing alignment. This is a subset of the named stars list. While I may know many of the stars, I certainly don't know them all, so I've prepared a GIF image file marking the constellations and the locations of the 80 stars. If you find it useful, here it is:
The alignment stars are in bold letters. Here are links to the full-sized variations of the chart:
Black stars on white background
White stars on black background
Red stars on black background
Credit: The
background constellaton chart (a PDF file) comes from this U.S. Naval Observatory
page.
This is very useful, thank you.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's still very useful! I recently acquired an AVX mount and first time trying to align it, I was overwhelmed with the number of named stars it offered! I haven't memorized many star names, so the chart is tremendously useful!
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