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Astronomy charts

Both sheets here exist because the numbers are hard to feel. The solar system chart puts size, distance from the Sun, the length of a year and the length of a day on one page, so that Jupiter's ten-hour day stops being trivia and becomes a comparison you can make with your eye.

The Moon sheet takes the eight phases through one full cycle — 29.53 days, not the 28 that gets repeated everywhere — and shows how much of the disc is lit at each of them.

Both work on a child's wall, and neither is only for children. A3 suits them: the planets need the width, and the phases want to be read from the doorway.

CONSTELLATIONS BY SEASON

CONSTELLATIONS BY SEASON

the northern evening sky through the year: 28 constellations per the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, latitude 40° N, evenings near 9 pm

US$1.50
METEOR SHOWERS

METEOR SHOWERS

the twelve principal showers of the year · periods, peaks and ZHR per the IMO calendar

US$1.50
PHASES OF THE MOON

PHASES OF THE MOON

eight phases · a full cycle of 29.53 days

US$1.50
MARS

MARS

size, distances and time — computed from rotation, orbit and mass

Free
THE SOLAR SYSTEM

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

eight planets · size, distance, year and day

Free
SPRING AND NEAP TIDES

SPRING AND NEAP TIDES

the Earth–moon–sun geometry that makes the tides swing — after NOAA

US$1.50
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