This photographic star atlas shows the entire sky on 82 charts. The chart arrangement is shown on the endpapers, and a schematic depiction is given on page 9. The scale at the center of each field is 1° per cm (2.54° per inch) for all charts. Stars are shown down to approximately 14th magnitude.

Each two-page spread shows the original color image, as well as an inverted and labeled black and white copy. Brightness and contrast were individually optimized for each chart. Hence, charts of regions far from the Milky Way may show slightly fainter stars than those showing rich star fields inside the Milky Way. For printing, the original RGB files had to be converted to the CMYK color space, a process that in some cases may yield slight color shifts compared to the original image.

In order to emphasize extended faint emission nebulae, the inverted maps were created from the red channel images only. For this reason, the brightness of individual stars may differ from their appearance on the color images (red stars appear brighter on the black and white charts, green and blue stars fainter).

The star atlas lists 1593 deep sky objects, all of which can be identified on the photographs. Object designators are based on the catalog of the Eye & Telescope v3.0 software [Pfl2011], which features one of the best error-corrected object databases. In a few cases, these designators may differ from those found in non-corrected catalogs or planetarium software.