Tabulae caelestes

The Tabulae Caelestes are a sky atlas in the form of eight large-format star maps . They were published for the first time by Richard Schurig in 1886, revised by Paul Götz as Schurig-Götz around 1910 and reissued in 1960 by Karl Schaifers in BI-Verlag . The very inexpensive sky atlas was published in around 20 editions and served as the first data source for many amateur astronomers .

The eight star maps ( panels I to VIII ) in the format 30 × 45 cm (panels I, II, VII, VIII) and 30 × 41.25 cm (panels III - VI) contain all stars up to the limit brightness 6.5 mag , as well as several hundred other celestial objects or double stars (Messier catalog, NGC and Hevel), furthermore the constellation borders and the contours of the Milky Way , mapped in a grid of 10 °:

• two maps each around the north and south pole (declination 30 ° to 90 °)
• and four maps 40 ° on both sides of the celestial equator (−40 ° to + 40 °)
• with a sufficiently large overlap of 20 ° between the individual cards.

In the bound editions from around 1950 a moon map is also included with the star maps . Several publications of the Bibliogr. Institute contain the eight star maps as a supplement.

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• Richard Schurig: Celestial Atlas , containing all stars visible to the naked eye in both hemispheres for the equinox 1925.0
• Karl Schaifers , Sebastian v. Hoerner: Meyers Handbuch über das Weltall , Bibl.Institut, Mannheim 1960
• Various editions of the "Tabulae caelestes"