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This is a scroll 210 cm in length and 24.4 cm wide showing the sky between declinations 40° south to 40° north in twelve panels, plus a thirteenth panel showing the northern circumpolar sky. A total of 1,345 stars are drawn, grouped into 257 asterisms. The date of this chart is uncertain, but is estimated as 705–10 AD. [14] [15] [16]
All circumpolar constellations fully-visible from the North Pole; Subcategories. This category has the following 28 subcategories, out of 28 total. A. Andromeda ...
Orion is a prominent set of stars visible during winter in the northern celestial hemisphere.It is one of the 88 modern constellations; it was among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy.
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Located 410 ± 20 light-years from Earth, [17] it is a hot blue-white star of spectral type B3 III with a surface temperature of 15,680 K. It is 6.5 times as massive and 4.2 times as wide as the Sun, and belongs to a class of stars known as Be stars —rapidly spinning stars that throw off a ring or shell of matter.
As reports of drone sightings continue in New Jersey and across the East Coast, people are reporting seeing strange objects in the central North Carolina sky as well.
The Dark Sky Observatory (DSO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Appalachian State University (ASU). It is located 9 kilometers (5.6 miles) east of Deep Gap, North Carolina (USA), off of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and 32 kilometers (20 miles) east of the ASU campus in Boone, North Carolina It was established in 1981, and is used for research, instruction, and public viewing ...
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