Star Maps

• Sharpe Planetarium's Star Maps (courtesy of Memphis Pink Palace Museum)
  1. Fall & Early Winter Sky - Facing North
  2. Fall & Early Winter Sky - Facing South
  3. Fall & Early Winter Sky - Facing East
  4. Fall & Early Winter Sky - Facing West
• Probe an electronic version of National Geographic's star chart, The Heavens, enriched by 39 images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
• StarGazer (requires Java-capable Web browser). The stars and constellations are displayed in "Horizon" format, where the stars are plotted according to their NSEW direction (azimuth) and their altitude above the horizon.
• Interactive Sky Charts (requires Java-capable Web browser). This program shows you the stars and constellations in "Star Chart" format, according to their Right Ascension and Declination.
• Kids Space - Constellations
• The Constellations
• Mount Wilson Observatory Constellation Quiz

Constellation Mythology

• The Constellations and their Stars - Great site for learning to locate and recognize the 88 named constellations, the names of the bright stars in those constellations, and the mythology associated with each constellation.
• Mythology - Intermediate Level (Windows to the Universe, University of Michigan)
• Constellation Lore - Reprinted with permission: Observing the Constellations by John Sanford (no known relation to the Planetarium Teacher), Simon & Schuster, 1990
• Space Encyclopedia/Constellations (Mythologies) - the mythology associated with the 12 constellations of the Zodiac
• Star Art - Read a set of different culture's constellation myths and try to match the star charts to the myths.

Mythology & Folklore

• Mythology in Western Art
• Bullfinch's Mythology - THE AGE OF FABLE OR STORIES OF GODS AND HEROES
• Perseus Project

New Links

• Be they faint streaks or brilliant flares, satellite observing is like watching man-made "shooting stars!" Visit J-Track 3-D for a unique view of over 500 of the artificial satellites which orbit the Earth.
• The Night Watchman -- a page dedicated to the identification and appreciation of the constellations. The most important part of this page requires Shockwave to run, so you may need to download the latest version of the Shockwave plug-in.
• Constellations - line art graphics of many of the more prominent constellations (great for pattern recognition)
• Constellations (from the Fall 1992 issue of The Universe in the Classroom, a free quarterly educational newsletter published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific)
• The Nearest Stars: A Guided Tour Through our Stellar Neighborhood (from The Universe in the Classroom)
• Biography of a Star: Our Sun's Birth, Life, and Death, including a clever activity on using parallax to measure distance, e.g., the distance to nearby stars (from issue Number 39, The Universe in the Classroom)
• The STScI Digitized Sky Survey