References
Good sources for teachers and students:
Sources I used to create these pages:
- Star data comes from the Bright Star Catalog on the ADC
frequently used catalogs CD-ROM
- Messier data and constellation sky charts comes from the Messier pages at SEDS
- The
AstroText project of the Global
Network Academy
- The
Texas
Astronomical Society's Constellation of the Month Series
written by Rick Raasch.
- "The Constellations" by Lloyd Motz and Carol Nathanson (Doubleday 1988)
- "The Cambridge Guide to the Constellations" by Michael
E. Bakich (Cambridge University Press 1995)
- "Explorations: an Introduction to Astronomy" by Thomas T. Arny
(Mosby 1994) for constellation positions and general trivia
- The
Peoria Astronomical Society
- The CASS
Public Outreach Page
- The meanings of the star names came from Steve Gibson's Star Names
Page. Steve got the information from "The Astronomical
Companion" (1979) by Guy Ottewell, Universal Workshop;
"Burnham's Celestial Handbook" (1976) by Robert Burhham
Jr., Dover Publications Inc.; and "Star Tales" (1988) by Ian
Ridpath, Universe Books.
- The brightest/nearest star information came from "Norton's
2000.0, 18th edition" and from Bill
Baity's Sky Pages
- The inline constellation graphics came from (1)
Mt. Wilson Observatory
and (2)
70 Vir and 47 UMa press release
- Inspiration for some of the constellation blurbs came from the
constellation pages at
Nebula
The Peoria
Astronomical Society has an amazing set of pages devoted to all
sorts of observational astronomical subjects, including a great page
of Frequently
Asked Questions.
SEDS is Students for the
Exploration and Development of Space at the University of Arizona,
Tuscon
ADC is
NASA's Astronomical Data Center, operated by the National Space
Science Data Center at Goddard Space Flight Center.
I would also like to thank the following people for contributing text
to these pages:
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