The Sky Maps - Celestron Ultima 8 Instruction Manual

The sky is dynamic and appears to change from month-to-month, night-to-night, and even hour-to-hour.
This is caused by the Earth moving around the Sun and the Earth rotating on its axis. On the following
pages are sky maps for each month of the year. The first, although showing January, can be used at other
times throughout the year and night. Below each map is the time the particular map can be used. You will
notice that on the January map it says,
This means that the sky that the January map shows, is 'up' in early December at 10:00 PM and in early
January at 8:00 PM.
The sky maps main purpose is to provide an avenue for you to easily locate two alignment stars. All the
alignment stars are printed in italic, bold, and underlined. Stars are either circled, pointed to, or have the
star name next to them. Because of its proximity to the celestial pole, Polaris should NOT be used as an
alignment star for equatorial mounts. If you are using the telescope in the altazimuth configuration, don't
align to an object that is at the zenith (straight above).
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THE SKY MAPS

Early December.........................10:00 PM
Late December.............................9:00 PM
Early January...............................8:00 PM
Late January.......................................Dusk