I've found a list of about 9000 stars on the NASA Web site, and I've transformed the 1000 most brillant into a VRML file. These stars, of course, have been put on their correct place on the sky, and that allows to identify the constellations they form.

Depending on their magnitude, the stars have been given different shapes and colors, so that the brightest ones (Sirius, Rigel, etc.) can be easily identified.

I've also written some Viewpoints that will put you directly in front of major constellations. If you go from Viewpoint to Viewpoint, simply following the normal order, you will have a tour through the winter and summer constellations of the two hemispheres and recognize or learn to recognize: Ursa Major, Gemini, Leo, Virgo, Scorpius, Centaurus, Crux, Orion, Pleiades, Pegasus, Delphinus and Ursa Minor.

It would be nice if VRML 2.0 and JavaScript champions could make that better, so that this sky could include planets and move itself according to the time and latitude of your own computer. If some of you are interested, email me and I'll be glad to send you the source files.

I was going to forget to say that the conversion between the NASA database and this VRML file was done in Quick Basic, as everything on this Web site. But I used dBase to put the NASA list in a convenient order according to the magnitude of the stars.