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  • Home Page

  • Brief biographical remarks

  • CONSTELLATIONS TABLE
    (The Main Tables)

  • A Binocular (and Naked Eye) Tour of the Stars

  • The Binocular Menu (by Constellation)

  • BINARY CENTRAL:
    data base and finder's chart for over 500 binaries

  • The Flamsteed Collection: a star catalogue

  • Data tables for all constellations

  • Graphics of all constellations
    viewed from the Northern Hemisphere

  • Down under: Introduction to the Southern Hemisphere

  • Graphics of all constellations
    as seen in the Southern Hemisphere

  • Greek alphabet

  • HD--HIP conversion tables

  • The Messier List

  • The Mythic Names

  • NGC Objects

  • Plagiarists I have known

  • Orbits of 150 binaries

  • Orbital Elements

    Credit must be given to the works listed below, without which this website could not have been possible:

    The Washington Double Star Catalog (cited as WDSC) maintained at the U.S. Naval Observatory.
    The Cambridge Double Star Atlas (cited as CDSA), James Mullaney and Wil Tirion
    (Cambridge University Press, online edition, 2013)
    Field Guide to the Deep Sky Objects, Mike Inglis (London, 2001)
    Burnham's Celestial Handbook, Robert Burnham (NY, 1978)
    The Flamsteed Collection, Richard Dibon-Smith (Toronto, 1998)
    STARS (http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/sowlist.html) created by Jim Kaler
    SEDS, The Messier Catalogue (http://messier.seds.org)

    Broken Links and Errors Report

    This page last updated 18 December 2016

    This web site was created and is wholly owned and operated by Richard Dibon-Smith.

    All original content, text and graphics, found on The Constellations web page
    is © by Richard Dibon-Smith.

    Material on this web site may be used without express permission, provided appropriate credit is given. Lacking the proper credit, any use of this material is an infringement of this copyright and you may find yourself featured on the Plagiarist page.