Stellarium Hevelius Sky Culture

[mcrossley]

I have finally got to what I think is fit for a v1.0 release of my Hevelius Sky Culture for Stellarium.

It depicts the 79 constellations drawn by Johannes Hevelius in 1690. It uses a combination of high resolution scans from the U.S. Naval Observatory and the Space Telescope Science Institute and other images. I have spent far too many hours cleaning these images up (removing lines/stars defects etc) and need a rest.

You can download the file from my web page here: Software

I hope you enjoy it!

[RogerTheDodger]

Wow, those are really beautiful... thanks for taking the tim to do them

[Pug]

They're beautiful, thank you very much!

[mcrossley]

Thanks chaps, just remember that they do not entirely match the 88 modern constellations.

[Pug]

Not a problem, they look wonderful and I've a penchant for old engravings! My daughter thinks they're nicer too!

[mcrossley]

I see the Hubble Site is using Stellarium and this sky culture to produce their monthly "Tonight's Sky" guide...

HubbleSite - Tonight's Sky: May 2011

[mcrossley]

Actually looking more closely I think they are using their own versions of the images - ones they haven't released to the public (?yet)