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- Web Pages:
- Windows to the universe, http://www.windows.ucar.edu/
- The Constellations and their Stars, http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/
- The Peoria Astronomical Society, http://www.astronomical.org/pasmenu.htm
- The Constellations Web Page, http://www.dibonsmith.com/stars.htm
- The Dome of the Sky, http://einstein.stcloudstate.edu/Dome/constellns/constlist.html
- Books:
- Pasachoff, Jay M., Peterson Field Guides: Stars and Planets - 4th Edition, Houghton Mifflin, 2000
- Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths (complete edition), Penguin Books, 1955, 1960
- Chartrand, M., Trion, W. National Audobon Society, Field Guide to the Night Sky, Knopf, 1991
- Raymo, Chet 365 Starry Nights, Simon
& Schuster, 1982
- Images:
- The historical constellation illustrations were taken from the following
source:
Johann Hevelius: URANOGRAPHIA (1690)
Used with permission from the Istituto di Fisica Generale Applicata, Università degli Studi di Milano
http://www.brera.unimi.it/old/HEAVENS/ATLAS/hevelius.html - Public domain versions of these images can now be found on the following sites:
http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/sources/illustrations/constellations/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Uranographia_by_Johannes_Hevelius
http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/astro_atlas&CISOPTR=1671&REC=6
Introduction to Constellations | Constellation Sources | Constellations Index
Revised: May 08, 2012