- From https://freestarcharts.com/contact: The main objective of the freestarcharts website is to provide quality star charts for use by amateur astronomers under a “Creative Commons License”. What that means is you are basically free to download, use and/or distribute this work for non-commercial purposes with appropriate attribution. A simple credit of “www.freestarcharts.com” is all that’s required as attribution. You can also create and distribute derived works if they follow the same license.
- Asterism (astronomy) (Wikipedia)
An asterism is an observed pattern or group of stars in the sky. Asterisms can be any identified pattern or group of stars, and therefore are a more general concept than the 88 formally defined constellations. Constellations are based on asterisms, but unlike asterisms, constellations outline and today completely divide the sky and all its celestial objects into regions around their central asterisms. For example, the asterism known as the Big Dipper comprises the seven brightest stars in the constellation Ursa Major. Another is the asterism of the Southern Cross, within the constellation of Crux.
