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In the night sky: Orion
In the night sky: Orion

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Acknowledgements

This course was written by Monica Grady and Phillipa Smith.

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course:

Images

Course image © monkeybusinessimages/iStockphoto.com

Figure 1 © ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

Figure 3 © Matthew Spinelli

Figure 4 © Brendan Alexander (Donegal Skies)

Figure 6 Orion image created by Sidney Hall (1788-1831). Public domain in Wikipedia

Figure 7 © ESA/Akira Fujii http://www.esa.int/ESA

Figure 14 Adapted from © joiseyshowaa in Flickr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Figure 15 adapted from: © Mouser in Wikipedia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Figure 16 Adapted from: http://www.copswiki.org/w/pub/Common/SeasonsGreetings/SouthernCrux.jpg. http://www.copswiki.org/

Figure 17 © Nigel Chadwick in Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steel_sculpture_on_the_Prime_Meridian Greenwich-geograph.org.uk-771282.jpg

Figure 18 © photograph: Technical Museum, Oslo, Norway/Public domain in Wikimedia Commons http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Chronometer_01.JPG

Figure 19 © DENES Translations in Wikipedia http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orion_Constellation_II.JPG

Figure 20 © Zwergelstern and Patrick Chevalley/Public Domain in Wikipedia http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Position_Alpha_Ori.png

Figure 21 © Starry Night Software

Figure 22 © Luc Perrot

Figure 23 Courtesy: Monica Grady

Audio and video

1.2.1 Patterns in the sky: Video: © The Open University and its licensors: Star field images: NASA APOD/© David Cortner; NASA APOD/© Philippe Moussette (Observatoire du Mont Cosmos); © sololos/iStockphoto,com; A. Fujii/ESA; NASA APOD/© Matthew Spinelli / Illustrations: NASA/HubbleSource/U.S. Naval Observatory Library / Audio: Book of Secrets © David O’Brien in AudioNetwork.com  

1.2.2 Orion in 3D: Video: courtesy NASA 

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