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  2. Star chart - Wikipedia

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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] They have been used for human navigation since time immemorial. [2]

  3. Sky-Map.org - Wikipedia

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    Sky-Map.org (or WikiSky.org) is a wiki and interactive sky map that covers over half a billion known celestial bodies. [1] WikiSky is designed, in part, as a wiki.Users can edit information about different stars by writing articles, adding Internet links, uploading images, or creating a special interest group for a specific task.

  4. Chinese star maps - Wikipedia

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    Korean Star Map Stone: c. 17th century-- Korean Star Map: c. 17th century-- Ceramic Ink Sink Cover: c. 17th century: Showing Big Dipper [40] Korean Star Map Cube 方星圖: Philippus Maria Grimardi: c. early 18th century-- Star Chart preserved in Japan based on a book from China 天経或問: You Ziliu 游子六: 1730: A Northern Sky Chart in ...

  5. Celestial cartography - Wikipedia

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    Star Maps from Ian Ridpath's Star Tales website. The Mag-7 Star Atlas Project; Historical Celestial Atlases on the Web; Felice Stoppa's ATLAS COELESTIS, an extensive collection of 51 star maps and other astronomy related books stored as a multitude of images. Monthly star maps for every location on Earth Archived 2007-09-13 at the Wayback Machine

  6. Carte du Ciel - Wikipedia

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    The Sydney 'Star Camera' used in the Carte du Ciel project, original publication, 1892. The Carte du Ciel (French pronunciation: [kaʁt dy sjɛl]; literally, 'Map of the Sky') and the Astrographic Catalogue (or Astrographic Chart) were two distinct but connected components of a massive international astronomical project, initiated in the late 19th century, to catalogue and map the positions of ...

  7. Harmonia Macrocosmica - Wikipedia

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    He and fellow-cartographer Hendricus Hondius published their Novus Atlas in 1636, which featured over 320 maps in four languages. In 1660, Andreas Cellarius' Harmonia Macrocosmica was published as the seventh volume of the project. With the final addition of a volume describing the cities of the world from 1657, the project was finally completed.

  8. Lists of constellations - Wikipedia

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    The following lists of constellations are available: IAU designated constellations – a list of the current, or "modern", constellations; Former constellations – a list of former constellations; Chinese constellations – traditional Chinese astronomy constellations; List of Nakshatras – sectors along the Moon's ecliptic

  9. Constellation - Wikipedia

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    [clarification needed] Traditional Chinese star maps incorporated 23 new constellations with 125 stars of the southern hemisphere of the sky based on the knowledge of Western star charts; with this improvement, the Chinese Sky was integrated with the World astronomy. [41] [42]

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