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Re: Constellations
From: John Kabel
Date: 2004 Nov 22, 11:04 -0500
From: John Kabel
Date: 2004 Nov 22, 11:04 -0500
Celestaire make a stylized "connect the dots" map of the navigational stars. Check their website at: http://www.celestaire.com/catalog/Starfinding- Astronomy/Starfinding_Aids/ and look near the bottom for "Honest Star Charts" John Kabel London, ON Canada > Does anyone know of a good on line source for maps of the constellations? > > Ideally , I'd like a line drawing showing each star in the tradition line > figure with the star's id (greek letter or number). > A plus would be common names (but not in place of id) and HR catalog > number. Coordinates are not needed, I can > get them else where. > > I've found decent maps of some constellations scattered over many sites but > no good single source. Most maps are > too small to read, lack some data, or are incomplete in some way. > > It's probably too much to hope for (Christmas is in the offing) but if > anyone has a list of the line segments making > up the constellations, I'd like to have it. :-) > > TIA, Michael