Star and Constellation Data

Here are links to sites that have useful information about stars and constellations.

tcaep.co.uk

Extensive science and math information published by Scenta and The Institute of Physics. Lists the stars in the constellations and gives their coordinates, but not distances. Links to the individual stars give more data, including parallax (from which distances can be obtained).

Dolan’s pages

Compiled by Chris Dolan at U Wisconsin, Madison. Lots of information about conststellations and their contents, individual stars, and the Messier objects. Very complete.

Frank’s Astronomy pages

Descriptions of the constellations, their mythology, and their Messier objects. Links to maps of the constellations.

Constellations from Jim Kaler’s STARS pages

All kinds of good stuff including descriptions of and stories about numerous stars and constellations.

Juergen Kummer’s pages

Links to constellations list individual stars. Individual star pages give spectroscopic data and distances, but not coordinates. Also links to several different categories of astronomical objects on interest.

Dave’s Astronomy Pictures

Stunning long-exposure photographs of several prominent constellations.

Utah Skies

Maps of the constellations and pictures and descriptions of the interesting objects in the constellations. No coordinates that I can find, but it does give magniturdes of prominent stars.

Wikipedia

OK, once you have the names of the interesting stars or objects in your constellation, you should at least check this obvious place. It has lots of information about everything, including stellar coordinates and distances. I’d love to hate Wikipedia, but it’s just too good.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

This is a great source for beautiful puctures of all sorts of sky objects, with good descriptions and explanations. Has an archive that can be searched.