Thu Dec 20, 2018 02:12 PM

Morning Modelbuch (7/14/2018)

Since so many of my friends are headed out to camp and perhaps do some stargazing, I thought I’d point out the gorgeous star charts from Johanne Bayer’s 1603 _Uranometria_

It has the 48 Ptolemaic Constellations plus 12 southern constellations and views of the northern and southern skies.

Short article on the subject https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-exquisite-drawings-from-the-first-map-of-the-entire-sky

There’s a full facsimile copy available online here. http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/ref/collection/astro_atlas/id/118