The Constellations
Lupus and Centaurus
The centaur and the wolf, with our nearest stars in gold.
- Chart
- Uranometria
- Astronomer
- Johann Bayer
- Date
- 1603
- Held by
- raremaps.com · via Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
A chart from Johann Bayer's Uranometria, Augsburg, 1603, engraved in copper by Alexander Mair, the stars heightened in gold in this copy. Centaurus, one of the largest constellations, is the centaur, half human and half horse. Lupus, the wolf, was long treated as an asterism belonging to it, and here the two share a plate; both were among Ptolemy's 48. The centaur's stars include Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own, and Omega Centauri, the brightest globular cluster in the sky. Bayer lettered both of them. Alpha Centauri is the house next door in the galaxy, and here it is in gold.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Lupus and Centaurus printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain chart held by raremaps.com · via Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. Framed pieces sit in a box frame under acrylic, with no mount (gold-ink editions on specialist press).
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our charts cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the gold figures, the tiny stars, the cartouches — on a matte sheet that shows every line without glare.
