The charts, with some slight variations, were used in Hieronimus Gourmontius’ typography in Paris to illustrate a work of 1552. Additionally, the 'Arati Solensis, Phaenomena et prognostica' (published in Paris by Guillaume Morel in 1559) is illustrated with two woodcuts, which take references from Johannes Honter's charts, apart from some variations regarding the planispheres’s frames.

This chart shows the ‘Constellationum Australium’ (Southern Hemisphere) and pairs with the ‘Constellationum Borealium' (Northern Hemisphere) from Honter's 1541 edition of Ptolemy’s collected works.

The stars are represented by dots, with particularly bright ones shown with six-points. Interestingly, Honter shifted the longitude thirty degrees from the correct position for the year 1532, possibly to reflect an earlier epoch. Both Northern and Southern charts are in stereographic projection and depict stars included in Ptolemy's 'Almagest' until the 'sixth magnitude'. However here the stars are not graded and are wrongly positioned, as can also be noted from the meeting of the Ecliptic with the Equator.

In the centre of each sheet are projections of the two ecliptic poles; their perimeters represent the 

 circle, and the constellations are depicted on both maps. Also included are projections of the two terrestrial poles, the polar circles, the tropics, and the Equator. The longitude lines are represented by thirty degree cloves and can be read with the precision of one degree.

Johannes Hontor’s two star charts, representing the Northern and Southern Hemispheres were first published individually in 1532 and, later, together in 1541. This chart shows the constellations of the Southern Hemisphere (‘Constellationum Australium’) from the 1541 edition. This is the first time that the constellations are represented in concave projection and some, such as Auriga, Boote, and Perseus – in strong contrast with the previous tradition – are dressed in contemporary costumes.

Honter’s star charts were included in a 1541 edition of Claudius Ptolemy’s collected works, 'Omnia uae extant opera' ('All the works of God') but were first published separately in 1532. Whereas earlier printed examples of star charts, like 

’s pair of charts printed in 1515, showed the constellations from the perspective of the Heavens (a God’s-eye view), Honter’s charts were the first to adopt a geocentric perspective. This represented a shift from a classical world view of the Heavens to a Humanist belief in the centrality of human reason to understand the world. 

Although Honter, like Dürer, relied on the classical astronomical work of Ptolemy’s ‘Almagest’ as the basis for his charts, he chose to dress the human constellations in modern garments, initiating a tradition of styling the constellations in contemporary costume.

The first printed geocentric star charts, as projected from the Earth rather than the Heavens, while maintaining the earth at the centre of the Universe.

Honter's Star Chart of the Southern Hemisphere