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2. Star chart - Wikipedia

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   SFA Star Charts – Free star charts; Geody Star Charts – Free (CC-by-sa) printer friendly star charts for several latitudes and times of the year; An online star chart; Monthly sky maps for every location on Earth Archived 2007-09-13 at the Wayback Machine; The Evening Sky Map – Free monthly star charts and calendar for northern hemisphere ...

3. Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs, and surveys

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   c. 300 BC — star catalog of Timocharis of Alexandria; c. 134 BC — Hipparchus makes a detailed star map; c. 150 — Ptolemy completes his Almagest, which contains a catalog of stars, observations of planetary motions, and treatises on geometry and cosmology; c. 705 — Dunhuang Star Chart, a manuscript star chart from the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang

4. Celestial cartography - Wikipedia

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   Easy to use monthly star maps for northern and southern hemispheres. Helpful target lists for naked eye, binocular, or telescope viewing. Collection of rare star atlases, charts, and maps Archived 2018-03-25 at the Wayback Machine available in full digital facsimile at Linda Hall Library. Navigable online map of the stars, Stellarmap.com.

5. List of stars for navigation - Wikipedia

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   The number used to identify stars in navigation publications and star charts. [Note 2] Common name The name of the star commonly used navigation publications and star charts. Bayer designation: Another name of the star which combines a Greek letter with the possessive form of its constellation's Latin name. Etymology of common name

6. Star catalogue - Wikipedia

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   An illustration of the constellation Perseus (after Perseus from Greek mythology) from the star atlas published by the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1690. A star catalogue is an astronomical catalogue that lists stars. In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. There are a great many different star catalogues ...

7. Category:Star maps - Wikipedia

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   Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Star maps" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This ...

8. Stellar designations and names - Wikipedia

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   The Bright Star Catalogue, which is a star catalogue listing all stars of apparent magnitude 6.5 or brighter, or roughly every star visible to the naked eye from Earth, contains 9,096 stars. [1] The most voluminous modern catalogues list on the order of a billion stars, out of an estimated total of 200 to 400 billion in the Milky Way .

9. Hipparchus star catalog - Wikipedia

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   The Hipparchus star catalog is a list of at least 850 stars that also contained coordinates of stellar positions in the sky, based on celestial equatorial latitude and longitude. [1] According to British classicist Thomas Heath , Hipparchus was the first to employ such a method to map the stars, at least in the West. [ 2 ]