Stereographic projections of the Northern hemisphere in equatorial coordinates (δ >  −3°). Lines of equal right ascension and declination are indicated with dashed gray lines (2^h steps in RA and 15° in Dec, from 0° to 75°). The Galactic plane is shown as the black curve. Left: observed LOTAAS pointings as of January 2019, following the LOTAAS tessellation scheme. The sky coverage of the incoherent beams is shown for the three passes with different colours. Note that beamsizes have been scaled down for readability of the plot. Right: sky location of the first 73 LOTAAS pulsar discoveries. The period P and dispersion measure DM of the pulsars are indicated with different symbols and colours. Contours show the sky temperature T_sky at 135 MHz, as extrapolated from the Haslam et al. (1982) 408 MHz map, as well as the maximum predicted DM within our Galaxy by the Cordes & Lazio (2002) NE2001 model.