<h2>LMCI</h2>
<p>
   LMCI sky culture is used internationally by some sects of Christianity.  It has historical roots in Ancient Greek astronomy,
   with influences from Islamic astronomy, but was first developed by British Egyptoligist Frances rolleston in 1864.  Rolleston's original
   work was supplemented by:
   <ul>
      <li>
         Dr. Joseph A, Seiss (1882)
      </li><li>
         E.W. Bullinger (1895)
      </li><li>
         William D. Banks (1985)
      </li><li>
         Matthew James (2010)
      </li><li>
         Dana Sherstad & B.J. Barbich (2011)
      </li><li>
         Ken Flemming (2012), and
      </li?<li>
         Tim Warner (2013)
      </li>
   </ul>
   There are, perhaps, hundreds of thousands of followers of this sky culture today.
</p>
<p><img src="2018mazz.jpg" width="700"  /></p>
<h3>Constellations</h3>
<p>
   The LMCI sky culture divides the celestial sphere into 48 areas of various sizes called <i>constellations</i>,
   each with precise boundary, issued by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
   These constellations have become the standard way to describe the sky, replacing similar sets in other sky cultures
   exhaustively in daily usage.
</p>
<p>
   The LMCI sky culture is, essentially, the Greek Ptolemaic sky culture with two exceptions.  The constellation of Crux,
   first recognized in 1592 by astronomer Petrus Plancius is added.  Second, the constellation of Pisces is divided, as per
   Accadian astromony, is divided into two disjoint constellations of Pisces with a fishing line connecting the swallow
   and the fish.
</p>

<h3>Star names</h3>
<p>
   Most of traditional western star names came from Arabic. In astronomy, Bayer/Flamsteed designations and other star
   catalogues are widely used instead of traditional names except few cases where the traditional names are more famous
   than the designations.
</p>

<h3>Alternative asterism files for Stellarium</h3>
<p>
   <a href="http://wackymorningdj.users.sourceforge.net/ha_rey_stellarium.zip" class='external text' rel="nofollow">Asterisms by H.A. Rey</a>,
   from his book "The Stars: A New Way To See Them", by
   <a class='external text' href="http://sourceforge.net/users/wackymorningdj/" rel="nofollow">Mike Richards</a>.
</p>


<h3>External links</h3>
<ul><li> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation" class='external text' title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation" rel="nofollow">Constellation</a> article at Wikipedia
</li><li> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_catalogue" class='external text' title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star catalogue" rel="nofollow">Star Catalogue</a> article at Wikipedia
</li><li> <a href="http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/sources/illustrations/constellations/" class='external text' title="http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/sources/illustrations/constellations/" rel="nofollow">Constellation image library</a> of the U.S. Naval Observatory and the Space Telescope Science Institute. Johannes Hevelius Engravings.
</li></ul>
