This print, published in Richard Blome’s 'The Gentleman's Recreation' (1686) shows the diverse ways in which cosmography can be applied Celestial cartography, uranography, astrography or star cartography [ ] is the fringe of and branch of concerned with mapping,, and other on the. Measuring the position and light of charted objects requires a variety of instruments and techniques. These techniques have developed from angle measurements with and the, through combined with lenses for light magnification, up to current methods which include computer-automated. Uranographers have historically produced, star tables, and for use by both and professional astronomers. Farhan ali naat. More recently computerized star maps have been compiled, and of is accomplished using databases of stars and other astronomical objects. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Etymology [ ] The word 'uranography' derived from the 'ουρανογραφια' ( ουρανος 'sky, heaven' + γραφειν 'to write') through the 'uranographia'.

In Renaissance times, Uranographia was used as the book title of various. During the 19th century, 'uranography' was defined as the 'description of the heavens'. Burritt re-defined it as the 'geography of the heavens'. The German word for uranography is ' Uranographie', the French is ' uranographie' and the Italian is ' uranografia'. Astrometry [ ]. This section needs expansion. You can help.

( June 2008) according to Aquarius according to 's Uranometria, based on Aquarius according to A determining fact source for drawing star charts is naturally a star table. This is apparent when comparing the imaginative 'star maps' of Poeticon Astronomicon – illustrations beside a narrative text from the antiquity – to the star maps of, based on precise star-position measurements from the. Important historical star tables [ ] • c:AD 150, – contains the last known star table from antiquity, prepared by, 1,028 stars. • c.964,, Arabic version of the Almagest. • 1627, – contains the first West Enlightenment star table, based on measurements of, 1,005 stars. • 1690, – by for his Firmamentum Sobiescanum, 1,564 stars.

Free Beginners Star Atlas in PDF This atlas is intended to beginners for binocular observations, sky reviews, and wide field astrophotography. Beginners Star Atlas Deepsky Catalog is specialy adopted for printing on the rear sides of the charts.

• 1729, Britannic Catalogue – by for his, position of more than 3,000 stars by accuracy of 10'. • 1903, – by and collaborators, circa 460,000 stars.

Star atlases [ ] Naked-eye [ ] • 15th century BC – The ceiling of the tomb for the Egyptian architect and minister, who served Queen, is adorned with a large and extensive star chart. • c:a 1 CE??, allegedly by • 1092 – Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao (新儀 象法要), by, a treatise which had the earliest existent in form. Su Song's star maps also featured the corrected position of the which had been deciphered due to the efforts of astronomical observations by Su's peer, the scientist. • 1515 – First European printed star charts published in Nuremberg, Germany, engraved.

• 1603 –, by, the first western modern star map based on 's and 's • 1627, published the star atlas which replaced pagan constellations with biblical and early Christian figures. • 1660 – ' 11th volume of featured the by • 1693 – Firmamentum Sobiescanum sive Uranometria, by, a star map updated with many new star positions based on Hevelius'es Prodromus astronomiae (1690) – 1564 stars. Telescopic [ ] • 1729 by • 1801 Uranographia by • 1843 Uranometria Nova by Photographic [ ] • 1914 Franklin-Adams Charts, by, a very early photographic atlas. • The Falkau Atlas (Hans Vehrenberg). Stars to magnitude 13.

• Atlas Stellarum (Hans Vehrenberg). Stars to magnitude 14. • True Visual Magnitude Photographic Star Atlas (Christos Papadopoulos). Stars to magnitude 13.5.