To reduce distortion, celestial cartographers can make charts of sections of the sky. Norton's Star Atlas, which has gone through 18 editions since 1910, divided the sky into gores, like segments ...

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A good star atlas provides ... about deep-sky objects, celestial coordinates, magnitude, and size and scale, as well as the atlas itself, which breaks the sky into 48 charts.

A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren't convinced, ...

structured celestial map in the world. Utilizing advanced imaging techniques, researchers at the Chinese National Astronomical Observatories determined that the star chart dates to approximately ...

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The Nuremberg Sky: Dürer Star Maps of 1515 continues at Albrecht Dürer’s House (Albrecht-Dürer-Straße 39, Nuremberg, Germany) through December 20. We hope you enjoyed this article!