Asterism Course
The Asterism Course equips physics professionals with practical skills in sky mapping, RA/Dec coordinates, star-hopping, and stellar data retrieval. Participants design accurate, engaging public sky tours based on real observational astronomy principles, using tools like charts, planispheres, and simulators to connect asterisms to precise coordinates and data.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course teaches practical skills for recognizing night sky patterns, planning star tours, and guiding audiences confidently. Master naked-eye navigation, star-hopping, charts, planispheres, and simulators. Develop scripts, visual aids, and data sheets from trusted catalogs, linking asterisms to coordinates, stellar data, and observation plans.
Elevify advantages
Develop skills
- Master celestial coordinates by converting asterisms to precise RA/Dec quickly.
- Develop star-hopping techniques for efficient linear sky tours using small telescopes.
- Acquire skills to extract reliable star data from SIMBAD, VizieR, Gaia, and other catalogs.
- Learn to create outreach scripts that simplify complex stellar physics for public audiences.
- Gain professional sky-planning abilities to time visibility, altitude, and transit for asterisms.
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