Find a dark area away from lights and with a good view of the night sky. After about 10 minutes your eyes will adapt to the dark and you will begin to see many stars. Use a good pair of binoculars to see even more stars and other celestial objects.

The Evening Sky Map To help find your way around the night sky, Skymaps.com makes available for free* each month The Evening Sky Map -- a 2-page monthly guide to the night skies of the northern and southern hemispheres. Each issue contains a detailed sky map, a monthly sky calendar, and a descriptive list of the best objects to see with binoculars, a telescope, or using just your eyes.

Latest issue: January 2009 Quadrantid meteor shower. Venus at greatest elongation. Annular Solar Eclipse (Southern Hemisphere). (download latest issue)

The Evening Sky Map is suitable for all stargazers including newcomers to astronomy. And, unlike other star charts on the Web, The Evening Sky Map will print clearly on any printer. (Read what others are saying about The Evening Sky Map.)

• identify planets, stars and major constellations
• find sparkling star clusters, wispy nebulae & distant galaxies
• locate and follow bright comets across the sky
• learn about the night sky and astronomy

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Skymaps.com encourages Astronomy Education Groups and Individual Users to freely distribute printed handouts of The Evening Sky Map for non-commercial educational use. Written permission is NOT required provided distributors comply with the Terms of Use. However, any use of a commercial nature, including publication of The Evening Sky Map, requires the prior written permission of the copyright owner for which a Copyright Permission Form must be submitted.

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