Constellations : guides to the night sky

Duration: 0:11:00

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1961

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | The University of Illinois: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses animation and actual photographs to show the easily recognized constellations used for locating other constellations and celestial objects in northern skies; and, through use of overprints relates constellations to their mythological origins. Introduces constellations through recognition of the Big Dipper as a part of Ursa Major. The "pointers" of the Big Dipper are used to find Polaris and the Little Dipper. Nova, light and dark nebulae, binary stars, and the Great Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda are identified. Circumpolar rotation of constellations in the northern sky is demonstrated., Uses animation and actual photographs to show the easily recognized constellations used for locating other constellations and celestial objects in northern and southern skies; and, through use of overprints relates constellations to their mythological origins. Introduces constellations through recognition of the Big Dipper as a part of Ursa Major. The "pointers" of the Big Dipper are used to find Polaris and the Little Dipper. Nova, light and dark nebulae, binary stars, and the Great Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda are identified. Circumpolar rotation of constellations in the northern sky is demonstrated.

Complete Record: , Uses animation and actual photographs to show the easily recognized constellations used for locating other constellations and celestial objects in northern and southern skies; and, through use of overprints relates constellations to their mythological origins. Introduces constellations through recognition of the Big Dipper as a part of Ursa Major. The "pointers" of the Big Dipper are used to find Polaris and the Little Dipper. Nova, light and dark nebulae, binary stars, and the Great Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda are identified. Circumpolar rotation of constellations in the northern sky is demonstrated.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.