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  2. 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

  3. Messier object - Wikipedia

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    Charles Messier. The first edition of 1774 covered 45 objects (M1 to M45).The total list published by Messier in 1781 contained 103 objects, but the list was expanded through successive additions by other astronomers, motivated by notes in Messier's and Méchain's texts indicating that at least one of them knew of the additional objects.

  4. Skyglobe - Wikipedia

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    Skyglobe is an astronomy program for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows first developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s and sold as Shareware. [1] It plots the positions of stars, Messier objects, planets, sun and moon.

  5. File:MessierStarChart.svg - Wikipedia

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    Simple single page Star Chart for the Messier Objects. SVG format. -- w:user:Jim Cornmell 11:45, 6 September 2006 (UTC) Edited for xml correctness Zeimusu 14:58, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

  6. List of astronomical catalogues - Wikipedia

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    GSC — Guide Star Catalog. GSC2 / GSC II — Guide Star Catalog II; GSPC — Guide Star Photometric Catalog. GSPC2 — Guide Star Photometric Catalog, 2nd; Gsh — J. Glaisher (double stars) GΣ — G. Struve (double stars) Gtb — K. Gottlieb (double stars) Gui — J. Guillaume (double stars) Gum — Gum catalog of emission nebulae

  7. Planetarium software - Wikipedia

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    Planetarium software is application software that allows a user to simulate the celestial sphere at any time of day, especially at night, on a computer.Such applications can be as rudimentary as displaying a star chart or sky map for a specific time and location, or as complex as rendering photorealistic views of the sky.

  8. Winnecke 4 - Wikipedia

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    Winnecke 4 (also known as Messier 40 or WNC 4) is an optical double star consisting of two unrelated stars in a northerly zone of the sky, Ursa Major. The pair were discovered by Charles Messier in 1764 while he was searching for a nebula that had been reported in the area by Johannes Hevelius .

  9. Caldwell catalogue - Wikipedia

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    While the Messier catalogue is used by amateur astronomers as a list of deep-sky objects for observation, Moore noted that Messier's list was not compiled for that purpose and excluded many of the sky's brightest deep-sky objects, [1] such as the Hyades, the Double Cluster (NGC 869 and NGC 884), and the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253). The Messier ...

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