I think he actually wanted to be able to use traditional constellations in Sky Charts. I thought there was a plug in to convert to them, but, if there was I can't seem to find it any more. It would be useful for astro-archaeology as you need the ancient constellations for that.
Meanwhile, what a find! Tomorrow I start downloading some of those images, they are very amazing. Must explore the rest of that site. Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "rapideye.geo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 12:33 AM Subject: [skychart-discussion] Re: Realistic drawings of constellation characters? > > > WOW -- I sent that too quick! > I stumbled across this site right afterwards: > http://www.usno.navy.mil/library/rare/rare.html > > Dunno why the US Navy has scanned copies of these on the internet, > but the scan quality is OUTSTANDING!!! > > There are excellent copies of Hyginus - Poeticon astronomicon, Atlas > céleste de Flamstéed, Bayer's Uranometria 1661, as well as photo > plates of the 1882 Venus Transit - wow! > > Again, dunno how you are going to present these charts for a show, > but I doubt you'll find better quality scanned images than these! > > G'Luck Mate! > <RE> > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater? Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/TzSHvD/SOnJAA/79vVAA/1.XolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To Post a message, send it to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skychart-discussion/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
