Celestial Tour: Dark Constellations

• Panorama of the Milky Way over Fisher Towers, Utah, April 28, 2017: Photograph by Zolt Levay 


• Views of the night sky with maps of sky cultures created using Stellarium v. 0.18.0


• Modern western constellations: Illustrations by Johannes and Elisabetha Hevelius, Hevelius Star Atlas, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Observatory and STScI


• Hawaiian starlines: Sky culture by Nainoa Thompson; artwork by Kealoha Kaneakua


• Traditional D(L)akota star knowledge: Paintings by Annette S. Lee, Native Skywatchers
  


• Inca dark constellations: Painting by Miguel Araoz Cartagena, Archaeological Museum of Cusco


• Alpha Centauri System, WFPC2 visible light image from the Hubble Space Telescope: ESA/Hubble & NASA


• Beta Centauri System, infrared image from the Vector-APP coronagraph, Magellan Adaptive Optics (MagAO) instrument, Magellan Clay telescope, Las Campanas Observatory, Chile: Leiden University/University of Arizona


• Lobster nebula, multi-wavelength image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, ROSAT telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and United Kingdom Infrared Telescope: X-ray—NASA/CXC/PSU/L. Townsley, et al; optical—UKIRT; infrared—NASA/JPL-Caltech


• Cat’s Paw nebula, ground-based optical telescope: George Varouhakis


• Central Milky Way, ESO GigaGalaxy Zoom visible light mosaic from ESO’s Paranal Observatory: ESO/S. Guisard


• Lobster nebula and Cat’s paw nebula, infrared image from the Herschel Space Telescope: ESA/Herschel/PACS, SPIRE/Hi-GAL Project


• Inca dark constellations: Based on painting by Miguel Araoz Cartagena, Archaeological Museum of Cusco


• Kamilaroi sky culture: Research by Robert Fuller, Macquarie University


• Arabic sky culture: Images prepared by Kutaibaa Akraa


• Panorama of the Milky Way over the ESO Very Large Telescope, Cerro Paranal, Chile: John Colosimo/ESO

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