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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 Chinese - Star Chart 清蒙文石刻(欽天監繪製天文圖) in Mongolia: 1727–1732: 1550 stars grouped into 270 starisms. - Japanese Edo period Star Chart 天経或問註解図巻 下: 入江脩敬: 1750--
The perspective of Chinese mythological geography tends to focus on the locus of those possessing the myths, as a "center" or "middle" area, based on land, with Sky above, Underworld below, and replete with mountains, seas, islands, and grottoes. Mythological locations tend to be replete with local inhabitants, of a mythological variety.
The southern sky was added as a fifth group in the late Ming dynasty based on European star charts, comprising an additional 23 asterisms. The Three Enclosures ( 三 垣 , Sān Yuán ) include the Purple Forbidden Enclosure , which is centered on the north celestial pole and includes those stars which could be seen year-round, [ 3 ] while the ...
In Muslim astronomy, the first star chart to be drawn accurately was most likely the illustrations produced by the Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi in his 964 work titled Book of Fixed Stars. This book was an update of parts VII.5 and VIII.1 of the 2nd century Almagest star catalogue by Ptolemy .
The word sky comes from the Old Norse sky, meaning 'cloud, abode of God'. The Norse term is also the source of the Old English scēo, which shares the same Indo-European base as the classical Latin obscūrus, meaning 'obscure'. In Old English, the term heaven was used to describe the observable expanse above the earth.
The Atlas Coeli covers both hemispheres with 16 charts. The coordinate system is referred to equinox 1950.0 and the scale is 1° = 0.75 cm. There are six charts of the equatorial regions on a rectangular graticule, covering declinations from +25° to -25°; four charts for each hemisphere with straight, converging hour circles and concentric, equally-spaced declination circles covering ...
In Renaissance times, Uranographia was used as the book title of various celestial atlases. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] During the 19th century, "uranography" was defined as the "description of the heavens". Elijah H. Burritt re-defined it as the "geography of the heavens". [ 7 ]
The ninth and final sign of destruction is described by White Feather (via Waters) as, "You will hear of a dwelling-place in the heavens, above the earth, that shall fall with a great crash. It will appear as a blue star. Very soon after this, the ceremonies of my people will cease".