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A celestial map by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit, 1670. A star chart is a celestial map of the night sky with astronomical objects laid out on a grid system. They are used to identify and locate constellations, stars, nebulae, galaxies, and planets. [1]
Layout of some Great Rift "constellations" as represented by the Inca. Dark zones obscuring the night-sky lighting mass of the bulk of the Milky Way in a dry atmosphere (or at long exposures) were recognized by many ancient civilizations in which a seasonally or regularly dry climate is a frequent feature.
Vulpecula / v ʌ l ˈ p ɛ k j ʊ l ə / is a faint constellation in the northern sky. Its name is Latin for "little fox", although it is commonly known simply as the fox.It was identified in the seventeenth century, and is located in the middle of the Summer Triangle (an asterism consisting of the bright stars Deneb, Vega, and Altair).
Paranal Observatory nights. [3] The concept of noctcaelador tackles the aesthetic perception of the night sky. [4]Depending on local sky cloud cover, pollution, humidity, and light pollution levels, the stars visible to the unaided naked eye appear as hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of white pinpoints of light in an otherwise near black sky together with some faint nebulae or clouds ...
Orozco, Miguel (2018) The True Story of Joan Miró and his Constellations. 261 pp. (accessed January 27, 2021) Rowell, Margit and Mildred Glimcher (2017). Miro and Calder's Constellations. Rizzoli International Publications, New York 400 pp. ISBN 0847859851; Tone, Lilian (1993). The Journey of Miró's Constellations. MoMA,15 (Autumn, 1993): 1-6 pp.
The depictions of the constellations in Urania's Mirror are redrawings from those in Alexander Jamieson's A Celestial Atlas, published about three years earlier, and include unique attributes differing from Jamieson's sky atlas, including the new constellation of Noctua the owl, and Norma Nilotica – a measuring device for the Nile floods – held by Aquarius the water bearer.
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Winter constellations as seen from the tropics Flip book (158 images): Transit of Mars, Sun, Mercury, and Venus in 2017 The Winter Hexagon is an asterism appearing to be in the form of a hexagon with vertices at Rigel , Aldebaran , Capella , Pollux , Procyon , and Sirius .