Celestial Atlas
Celestial AtlasImage credit: Alexander Jamieson.

Sky map

Sky map of current view from Earth to different directions of space around it.

Map of current sky

Which direction we are looking to the space around Earth or which part of the sky we see above us, depends on our geographic location. Next links to the sky maps point the view from different geolocations (center of continents and both poles) up to the sky:
(External links to sky map plots open in a new browser window.)

Look to the opposite direction

You may want to look to the same locations of the world, but to the opposite direction from sky and space down to the Earth, and explore the current daylight map.

Sources and credits

Sky map plots courtesy of AstroViewer®, sky map software from Dirk Matussek, www.astroviewer.com