Reference sources - Best,E 1955 'The astronomical knowledge of the Maori',Dominion Museum Monograph no.3 Wellington:Government Printer Best,E 1959 'The Maori division of time',Dominion Museum Monograph no4. Wellington: Government Printer Evans,J 1998 'The discovery of Aotearoa', Reed Kingsley-Smith, C 1967 'Astronomers in puipuis. Maori Star lore', Southern Stars 22,5-10 Leather,K and Hall,Richard 2004 'Tatai Arorangi: Maori Astronomy, Work of the gods',Viking sevenseas nz ltd, Paraparaumu, NZ, ISBN:085467105 6 Lewis,D 1994 'We, the navigators. The ancient art of landfinding in the Pacific',University of Hawaii press Orbell,M 1996 'The natural world of the Maori',David Bateman ltd Orchiston, W 'Australian Aboriginal, Polynesian and Maori Astronomy', Chapter of 1996 'Astronomy before the telescope' 318-328. Editor Chris Walker. BCA NOTES: Castor not pollux labelled Whakaahu put in matariki as a star 17499, and set magnitudes to limit 4.0 so it can be seen stars in Matariki also randomly labelled, just to get the names in. put tekokota(hyades) in as a constellation Jupiter and Saturn both have names Perearau, so labelled them Jupiter Perearau_1 and saturn Perearau_2 Venus has two names, Meremere and Tawera, as there were seperate names for the morning and evening stars. Earth is named Papa. In maori, double stars, optical or visual are called Pipiri, as an example Algieba is labelled Pipiri TERMS in this program: (well some of them) Mercury Takero Venus (morning star) Tawera (evening star) Meremere Mars Rangiwhenua Jupiter* Perearau Saturn* Perearau Both Jupiter and Saturn the same conflicting name in Maori. Altair Poutu-te-Rangi Antares Rehua S_Sco Pekehawani T_Sco Whakaonge-kai Canopus Autahi Procyon Puanga Hori Rigel Puanga Sirius Takarua Vega Whanui Spica Whiti-Kapeka Arcturus Ruawahia Castor/(Pollox) Whakaahu Aldebaran Taumatakuku Orion (whole belt) Hao - o- rua (the belt) Tau toro (a part) Te Kakau Scorpio Ruhi (the tail) Te Waka-o-Tama-Rereti Pleiades Matariki Pointers Te Taura Ra o Tainui Maori constellation Te-Ra-o-Tainui Hyades Te Kokota Southern Cross Mahutonga Coal sack Te Patiki Milky Way Te ika o te rangi Large Magellan cloud Te Waka Ruru Small Magellan cloud Tuputuputu Double stars Pipiri Comets Auihi Turoa Ecliptic Pito - o - Watea Moon Te Marama Sun Te Ra -Te-Ra-o-Tainui: A maori constellation without a European counterpart. This represents a waka, the belt of orion the keel, the hyades, a claw sail and the Pleiades the bow. -The individual star name Whakaahu either refers to A_Gem or B_Gem,thus in this program A_Gem is taken as Whakaahu de to a second reference to Stowell from Best(1955). - Matariki refers to the Pleiades, which technically, is not a single star but a star cluster made up dozens of stars, six visible for naked eye observing, seven if great. -WhitiKaupeka and Ruawahia are other Stowell references, A source that does not fully correlate with Best.