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Constellation Sources

  • 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

  • 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


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