This skyculture is pseudomythological and based on Elvish star lore from books by J.R.R. Tolkien

Greek myths, and how they made it to the nightsky. a bit funny and totally un-bloody. This overlay uses the same characters and figures as used in my lectures at at the Schriesheim public observatory. Not all myths are not entirely complete and have been interpreted here and the with a certain degree of freedom, since the original editions (Collection from Gustav Schwab a.o.) were not found to be so useful to inspire kids for the nightsky.

Constellation images from Johannes Hevelius’s famous 17th century Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia star atlas.

A mixture of high resolution images from the US Naval Observatory and the Space Telescope Science Institute, and some lower resolution images. All images have been further processed to clean up and provide suitable contrast for Stellarium.

All the high resolution Hevelius images courtesy of U.S. Naval Observatory and the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Data about ancient irish constellations was received from book “Constellation Stories of Ancient Ireland” by Julie Ormonde. Data can be used for non-commercial usage only.

Here is the sky above Naples, told by the Neapolitan constellations and by the imagination of the Constellations group of the Neapolitan Amateur Astronomers Union (UAN)!