North celestial pole and circumpolar constellations

by: L.Laveder/Novapix
Reference: a-cst66-00004
Date: 2007-09-16

Pole star Polaris (near the center of the image) and circumpolar constellations; from left to right and top to bottom: Big Dipper, Draco with Little Dipper, Cygnus, Cepheus and Cassiopeia. Constellation mythological forms from "Uranographia" star atlas by Hevelius (1690) have been added. May 20 2007, Ploumanach (Cotes d'Armor-France).

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