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    Any images of stars suitable for what I want to do?

    Hello!
    I didn't find any other place to ask this so I'll go ahead and do it here.
    I want to create a game that woud teach people the name of the main constellations and how to spot them on the sky.
    The idea of the game is that people have on their monitor the sky with all the stars there and they can choose from a list of constellations a constellation. When a constellation is chosen, some stars on the sky shine, revealing the chosen constellation.

    I need an image representing the stars "used" in every constellation, without the names of the constellations or anything else. Just the stars. Of course, it doesn't have to be a real picture, but an accurate representation of the position of the stars on the sky.
    Can you provide me with some links?

    I hope I can get some help here.
    Thanks!

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    Get a copy of "Stellarium", which is a very nice, free, planetarium program. It runs under most major platforms.

    Use it to make your own charts. The program will give you (at least) two choices for the stars used in each constellation; I prefer the ones by H. A. Rey, but I admit that they sometimes rely on very faint stars.

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