Constellation Mythological Forms

With the kind cooperation of the U.S. Naval Observatory's Library we digitally scanned a complete set of exquisite engravings from the 17th century Uranographicarum star atlas by Johannis Hevelius. Following an elaborate process of digital cleaning, reconstruction and retouching we are happy to make available the images shown below. You are welcome to use them in planetarium shows, exhibits, videos, and other non-commercial applications. (Kindly credit the U.S. Naval Observatory and the Space Telescope Science Institute.)

So far we have processed less than half of the constellations in Hevelii's atlas. Additional ones will be posted as we make them. (Sorry, we cannot accept requests to speed up the process!)