Caption: Sky map Las Vegas, Nevada for current date & time.

Features:

1. Note the sky map software is Your Sky by John Walker. For sky map and control panel:
   1. For default Your Sky sky map.
   2. For black & white current-time Las Vegas sky map or click on the displayed sky map.
   3. For color current-time Las Vegas sky map.
   4. Refresh your browser to update the displayed sky map.
   5. See also Your Sky and Sky Maps for the Year.

2. There are 2 ways to get a printout from the control panel. One or the other or may work on your browser----but it's really, really hard to know:
   1. Go right click on the N at the top of the sky map/click view image/file/print preview and adjust the image to your desire and then go print to get the gif image.

   2. Go toolbar/file/print preview and scale to 50 % (or whatever your web browser requires) so that the whole sky map shows and then go print and to get a printable image. This should work on Firefox and Internet Explorer. If the toolbar is NOT present for Internet Explorer, push key F10 on the keyboard.

   The print preview is needed in order to adjust the the sky map to come out one page and otherwise look good.

3. Since you may want to update the sky map using the control panel, you should note the location data for Las Vegas, Nevada:
   latitude: 36°10'30" N = 36.17500000 N
   longitude: 115°08'11" W = 115.13638889
   

   If you are NOT in Las Vegas, Nevada, you will have to use your local geographic coordinates (i.e., latitude and longitude).

4. What about time?

   Conversion from Universal Time to Local Time and Vice Versa:

   For Las Vegas, Nevada:
   PST=UT -8    UT =PST+8
   PDT=UT -7    UT =PDT+7
   

   The abbreviations above are explained by the following linked terms: Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), Pacific Standard Time (PST), Universal Time (UT).

   If you are NOT in Las Vegas, Nevada, see World Time Zones Map for the world time zones. You add/subtract the time zone numbers at the bottom of time zones to go from UT/(local time) to (local time)/UT. Remember that +(-x)=-x and -(-x)=x. Also note the time zone numbers are for standard time (ST). To convert daylight saving time (DST) to ST requires the mnemonic spring forward, fall back---so during DST subtract an hour to get ST. For example, say it is X local DST. It's then (X-1) local ST. If the time zone number is -8 (as for Las Vegas, Nevada), then the UT is (X-1) - (-8) = X+7, and so you get the rule above for Las Vegas, Nevada: UT = PDT+7.

   Of course, you could just google "Universal Time" to get the current UT wherever you are. Then just add/subtract from that UT go get the UT you want. Say 6 pm local DST googles to 1 am UT (which is tomorrow) and you want to observe at 9 pm DST, then that will be 4 am UT.

5. For observing, one should also check the Las Vegas weather.

6. The planets are labeled by the planet symbols on the sky map.

   Here are the main Solar System astronomical symbols:

   Sun ☉, Moon ☽, Mercury ☿, Venus ♀, Earth ⊕ (alternate symbol ♁), Mars ♂, Jupiter ♃, Saturn ♄, Uranus , Neptune ♆, ex-planet Pluto ♇.

   See also, just for fun, the minor planet symbols: 1 Ceres ⚳, 2 Pallas ⚴, 3 Juno ⚵, 4 Vesta ⚶, 5 Astraea ⚖, 6 Hebe 🍷, 7 Iris (not available), 8 Flora ⚘, 9 Metis (not available), 10 Hygiea ⚕, etc.

7. For reference, here are the zodiac symbols for the zodiac:

   Aries ♈, Taurus ♉, Gemini ♊, Cancer ♋, Leo ♌, Virgo ♍, Libra ♎, Scorpius ♏, Sagittarius ♐, Capricornus ♑, Aquarius ♒, Pisces ♓.