Celestial Poles: The Points On The Celestial Sphere Directly Overhead At Either Of The Earth’s Poles. The Projection Of Earth’s Poles Into Space…. Celestial Equator: The Imaginary East-West Line That ...

Star mapping links us directly to the universe, requiring the careful observation and recording of celestial positions. This ...

Delporte drew the lines of the 88 constellations parallel and perpendicular to the celestial sphere's positioning for the ...

It was the first to cover the entire celestial sphere. Bayer set the standard for the classical images we associate with the constellations today. However, there was no rule for what stars were ...

Simpson meets the daunting beauty of the celestial sphere with a painterly language ... In the first gallery is “Unnatural Constellation,” a set of paintings by Simpson based on a 1960s ...

Ah, there it is. The first-magnitude star shining faintly on the dull celestial sphere must be Vega (Orihime in the Tanabata legend) in the Lyra constellation. I had given up on seeing it from the ...