Welcome into the Dome!

View the stars from different latitudes north and south. Learn the star names and the constellations!

Select Your Latitude on the Left!

Just click on one of the links to the left to select a viewing site in the northern or southern hemisphere. Then select a date or sidereal time to get a view of the sky.

Show or Remove Constellations

You can choose to look at the sky with or without the constellation lines drawn in. With each sky chart there is a link on the left side of the screen. Just click the link and you can add or remove the constellations.

The Stars Tell Their Names

To learn the name of a brighter star, just click on the star in the chart. To learn the name of a constellation in an area of the sky chart, just click on that area of the chart. That will bring up a page telling some of the stories associated with that constellation.

If You Have Problems

Some browsers do not always activate the sky charts in the Javascript version of the Dome of the Sky. This sometimes happens particularly with Netscape. If clicking on a sky chart does not produce any response, try turning off the Javascript in your browser. Then go back and enter the Dome again. This will take you to the other version of the site, where the server processes clicks on the sky charts instead of your browser.

The Myths of the Stars

Most of the 88 constellations recognized by astronomers today are associated with Roman and Greek myths. Each of the constellation pages gives a brief of the classical mythology associated with that constellation.

List the Constellations!

There is a link to the left will take you to a list of links connecting to the 88 pages describing the mythology of the constellations.

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Copyright © 1998, Prof. Arnold V. Lesikar, Physics Dept., St. Cloud State University,St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498 Feedback to: lesikar@stcloudstate.edu Page created: Jan. 30, 1998. Last revision: May 19, 2005. URL: http://domeofthesky.com/Dome/