Astrolabe

This program generates "astrolables" for any location, in PostScript and Acrobat PDF.

The instructions to assemble and to use these astrolabes are listed here (TOPS page).

In case you have problems, you can contact us, sending a message with the Long/Lat or city you want and your address: we will print the template and send them to you.

Select your observatory from the list below, or enter your longitude/latitude.

1. List: 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 Cheyenne, Wyoming Chicago, Illinois Cincinnatti, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio Cologne, Germany Colorado Springs, Colorado Columbia, Missouri Columbia, South Carolina Columbus Project Columbus, Georgia Columbus, Ohio Concord, New Hampshire Corpus Christi, Texas Crete, Greece Crimean Astrophysical Obs. Dallas, Texas Darwin, NT, Australia Davenport, Iowa Davis Observatory, AAT Dayton, Ohio Daytona Beach, Florida Decatur, Illinois Denver, Colorado Des Moines, Iowa Detroit, Michigan Dodge City, Kansas Dominion Astrophysical Observatory Dominion Radio Astro. Observatory Dublin, Ireland Dubuque, Iowa Duluth, Minnesota Durham, North Carolina ESO 1-meter Schmidt Telescope Eau Claire, Wisconsin Edinburgh, Scotland Edmonton Alberta, Canada Effelsberg 100m Radiotelescope El Paso, Texas Elizabeth, New Jersey Enid, Oklahoma Erie, Pennsylvania Eugene, Oregon Eureka, California European Southern Observatory (NTT) European Southern Observatory (VLT) Evansville, Indiana Fall River, Massachusetts Fargo, North Dakota Flagstaff, Arizona Flint, Michigan Fort Smith, Arkansas Fort Wayne, Indiana Fort Worth, Texas Frankfurt, Germany Fresno, California Gadsden, Alabama Gainesville, Florida Gallup, New Mexico Galveston, Texas Gary, Indiana Gemini Telescope (north) Gemini Telescope (south) Geneva, Switzerland Gillam Manitoba, Canada Grand Junction, Colorado Grand Rapids, Michigan Great Falls, Montana Green Bay, Wisconsin Greensboro, North Carolina Greenville, South Carolina Greenwich, England Groton, New York Guatemala City, Guatemala Gulfport, Mississippi Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada Hamburg, Germany Hamilton, Ohio Hannover, Germany Harare, Zimbabwe Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Hartford, Connecticut Helena, Montana Helsinki, Finland Hobart Tas, Australia Holyoke, Massachusetts Honolulu, Hawaii Houston, Texas Huntington, West Virginia Huntsville, Alabama Indianapolis, Indiana Iowa City, Iowa Isaac Newton Telescope (98-inch) Jackson, Michigan Jackson, Mississippi Jacksonville, Florida Jakarta, Indonesia Jersey City, New Jersey Jerusalem, Israel Johannesburg, South Africa Johnstown, Pennsylvania Joplin, Missouri Juneau, Alaska KHBI, Saipan, MI Kalamazoo, Michigan Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City, Missouri Karl Schwarzschild Observatorium Kenosha, Wisconsin Kensington NSW, Australia Key West, Florida Kiso Observatory Kitt Peak National Obs. Knoxville, Tennessee Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Lafayette, Indiana Lancaster, Pennsylvania Lansing, Michigan Laredo, Texas Large Earth-based Solar Tel. (LEST) Las Campanas Observatory Las Vegas, Nevada Lawrence, Massachusetts Leander McCormick Observatory Learmonth Solar Observatory Lexington, Kentucky Lick Observatory Lille, France Lima, Ohio Lincoln, Nebraska Lisbon, Portugal Little Rock, Arkansas London, England Long Beach, California Longyearbyen, Norway Lorain, Ohio Los Angeles, California Louisville, Kentucky Lowell, Massachusetts Lubbock, Texas Lund, Sweden Luxembourg, Luxembourg MMT Macon, Georgia Macquarie Island, AAT Madison, Wisconsin Madrid, Spain Managua, Nicaragua Manchester, New Hampshire Marseille, France Marshall, Texas Mauna Kea Observatory (NASA IRTF) Mawson Observatory, AAT McDonald Observatory Melbourne Vic, Australia Memphis, Tennessee Meriden, Connecticut Miami, Florida Michigan-Dartmouth-MIT Obs. Milano, Italy Milwaukee, Wisconsin Minneapolis, Minnesota Minot, North Dakota Mobile, Alabama Moline, Illinois Montgomery, Alabama Montpelier, Vermont Montreal Quebec, Canada Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Moscow, Russia Mount Wilson Observatory Mt. Stromlo Observatory Muncie, Indiana Munich, Germany Nancay Radiotelescope, France Nashville, Tennessee Natchez, Mississippi National Astronomy Obs. (Japan) New Bedford, Massachusetts New Britain, Connecticut New Delhi, India New Haven, Connecticut New Orleans, Louisiana New York, New York Newark, New Jersey Newcastle NSW, Australia Niagara Falls, New York Nordic Optical Telescope Norfolk, Virginia North Liberty Radio Observatory OAB, Brera (MI), Italy OAB, Merate (LC), Italy Oakland, California Obs. Astro. Nacional, San Pedro Martir Obs. Astro. Nacional, Tonantzintla Observatoire Royal de Belgique Observatoire de Besancon Observatoire de Calern Observatoire de Nice Observatoire de Paris Ogden, Utah Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Old Royal Observatory Omaha, Nebraska Orlando, Florida Oschin 48-inch Telescope Oslo, Norway Ottawa Ontario, Canada Paducah, Kentucky Palomar Observatory (200 inch) Paris, France Parkes Radiotelescope, Australia Pasadena, California Paterson, New Jersey Pensacola, Florida Peoria, Illinois Perth, WA, Australia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Phoenix, Arizona Pierre, South Dakota Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsfield, Massachusetts Pocatello, Idaho Port Arthur, Texas Portland, Maine Portland, Oregon Portsmouth, New Hampshire Portsmouth, Virginia Prague, Czech Republic Pretoria, South Africa Providence, Rhode Island Provo, Utah Pueblo, Colorado Racine, Wisconsin Radioastrophysical Observatory Raleigh, North Carolina Rankin Inlet Nunavut, Canada Rapid City, South Dakota Reading, Pennsylvania Reno, Nevada Reykjavik, Iceland Richmond, Virginia Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Roanoke, Virginia Rochester, Minnesota Rochester, New York Rockford, Illinois Rome, Italy Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma Royal Greenwich Observatory Sacramento, California Saginaw, Michigan Saint Cloud, Minnesota Saint Joseph, Missouri Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Lucia Qld, Australia Saint Paul, Minnesota Saint Petersburg, Florida Salem, Oregon Salina, Kansas Salt Lake City, Utah Salzburg, Austria San Angelo, Texas San Antonio, Texas San Bernardino, California San Diego, California San Francisco, California San Jose, California San Juan, Puerto Rico Santa Barbara, California Santa Cruz, California Santa Fe, New Mexico Santiago, Chile Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Sapporo, Japan Sarasota, Florida Savannah, Georgia Schenectady, New York Scranton, Pennsylvania Seattle, Washington Sheboygan, Wisconsin Sheridan, Wyoming Shreveport, Louisiana Siding Spring Observatory Singapore, Singapore Sioux City, Iowa Sioux Falls, South Dakota Sofia, Bulgaria Somerville, Massachusetts South Bend, Indiana Space Telescope Science Inst. Spartanburg, South Carolina Special Astrophysical Obs. Spokane, Washington Springfield, Illinois Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield, Missouri Springfield, Ohio St. Petersburg, Russia Stamford, Connecticut Steubenville, Ohio Stockholm, Sweden Stockton, California Strasbourg, France Stuttgart, Germany Superior, Wisconsin Sydney NSW, Australia Syracuse, New York Tacoma, Washington Taipei, Taiwan Tallahassee, Florida Tallinn, Estonia Tampa, Florida Telescopio Nazionale Galileo Terre Haute, Indiana Texarkana, Texas Tokyo, Japan Toledo, Ohio Topeka, Kansas Toronto Ontario, Canada Torun Radiotelescope, Poland Torus Observatory Trenton, New Jersey Tromso, Norway Troy, New York Tucson, Arizona Tulsa, Oklahoma U. S. Naval Observatory United Kingdom Infrared Tel. (UKIRT) United Kingdom Schmidt Tel. Unit Univ. of BC and Laval Univ. Uppsala University Observatory Urbana, Illinois Utica, New York VLA, New Mexico VLBA, Brewster, WA VLBA, Fort Davis, TX VLBA, Hancock, NH VLBA, Kitt Peak, AZ VLBA, Los Alamos, NM VLBA, Mauna Kea, HI VLBA, N. Liberty, IA VLBA, Owens Vly., CA VLBA, Pie Town, NM VLBA, St. Croix, VI Vainu Bappu Observatory Vancouver British Columbia, Canada Varna, Bulgaria Venezuela 1-meter Schmidt Victoria British Columbia, Canada Vienna, Austria W. M. Keck Observatory WIYN Observatory WSHB, Cyprus Creek, South Carolina Waco, Texas Walla Walla, Washington Warsaw, Poland VLBA, Pie Town, NM VLBA, St. Croix, VI Vainu Bappu Observatory Vancouver British Columbia, Canada Varna, Bulgaria Venezuela 1-meter Schmidt Victoria British Columbia, Canada Vienna, Austria W. M. Keck Observatory WIYN Observatory WSHB, Cyprus Creek, South Carolina Waco, Texas Walla Walla, Washington Warsaw, Poland Washington, DC Waterbury, Connecticut Waterloo, Iowa Wellington, New Zealand West Palm Beach, Florida Wheeling, West Virginia White Plains, New York Wichita Falls, Texas Wichita, Kansas Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania William Herschel Telescope Wilmington, Delaware Wilmington, North Carolina Winer Mobile Observatory Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada Winston-Salem, North Carolina Wollongong NSW, Australia Worcester, Massachusetts Wyoming Infrared Observatory Yakima, Washington Yerkes Observatory Yonkers, New York York, Pennsylvania Youngstown, Ohio Yuma, Arizona Zagreb, Croatia Zanesville, Ohio Zentralinstitut fur Astrophysik Zurich, Switzerland

2. Coordinates: Longitude=deg. West; Latitude=deg.