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Optical Hipparchus - created the first known star catalogue with more than 850 stars. The data was incorporated into the Almagest along with the first list of stellar magnitudes and was the primary astronomical reference until modern times, 190-120 BC.
Bulan Island, in the Sijori Growth Triangle, Riau Islands Province, Indonesia; Bulan Island, in the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines; Other uses
The Lunation Number or Lunation Cycle is a number given to each lunation beginning from a specific one in history. Several conventions are in use. The most commonly used was the Brown Lunation Number (BLN), which defines "lunation 1" as beginning at the first new moon of 1923, the year when Ernest William Brown's lunar theory was introduced in the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.
Phalaenopsis amabilis (Indonesian: anggrek bulan meaning "moon orchid") is one of the three national flowers in Indonesia, the other two being the sambac jasmine and padma raksasa. [7] It was officially recognized as national "flower of charm" ( Indonesian : puspa pesona ) in Presidential Decree No. 4 in 1993.
The International System of Units, internationally known by the abbreviation SI (from French Système international d'unités), is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement.
The followings are the contiguous urban areas in Indonesia, with a population of over 500,000, according to Demographia's "World Urban Areas" study (19th Annual - 2023). Demographia defines an urban area (urbanised area agglomeration or urban centre) as a continuously built up land mass of urban development that is within a labor market ...
On 17 August 1954, a National Monument Committee was established and a design competition was held in 1955. This attracted 51 entries, but only one design, by Friedrich Silaban, met any of the criteria determined by the committee, which included reflecting the character of Indonesia in a building capable of lasting for centuries. A repeat ...
Nikita Mirzani was born on 17 March 1983 in Jakarta, Indonesia, as the second child and only daughter of the four children to Mawardi bin Rasyidin (1963 - 2014) and Julaelah (1967 - 2009). [1] [2] Her brothers were Edwin Augustinus Ray, Pedro Adrian, and Lintang Fajar Gemuruh. [3] [4] [5] She has two adoptive sisters named Amelia Natadipura. [6]