Julius Schiller

Julius Schiller ( † 1627 in Augsburg) was a German astronomer and an Augustinian monk, and a contemporary of Johann Bayer also living in Augsburg.

With the help of Bayer Schiller published his death in 1627, the star atlas Coelum Stellatum Christianum. The work was an attempt to create a "Christian " star catalog, are renamed to the common constellations and illustrated with figures from the Christian tradition. In general, in this formula, figures and symbols of the new testament north of the ecliptic and south of the Old Testament, while the Ekliptiksternbilder the twelve zodiac signs have been replaced by the twelve apostles.

The star catalog is regarded as a curiosity, and had, in contrast to Bayers Uranometria, never attained great importance. Unlike Bayer Schiller represents the starry sky is reversed, that is, from God's perspective on the sky in the direction of the earth. This representation corresponds to the tradition of celestial globes, while for single sky excerpts of historical maps and atlases laterally correct is widespread. The Schiller constellations were taken up only in a work, the artistic Atlas by Andreas Cellarius Harmonia Macrocosmica in 1661.

The lunar crater Schiller is named after him.

St. Joseph, the Schiller instead of Orion sets

Adaptation of the Christian firmament Schiller by Andreas Cellarius, Hemisphere autumn point

The Christian constellations around the vernal equinox