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The Simulated Sky: Stellarium for Cultural Astronomy Research
Georg Zotti, Susanne M Hoffmann, Alexander Wolf +2
For centuries, the rich nocturnal environment of the starry sky could be modelled only by analogue tools such as paper planispheres, atlases, globes and numerical tables. The immer…
Accuracy of magnitudes in pre-telescopic star catalogues
Philipp Protte, Susanne M Hoffmann
Historical star magnitudes from catalogues by Ptolemy (137 AD), as-Sufi (964) and Tycho Brahe (1602/27) are converted to the Johnson V-mag scale and compared to modern day values f…
A new approach to generate a catalogue of potential historical novae
Susanne M Hoffmann, Nikolaus Vogt, Philipp Protte
Ancient Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese observers left us records of celestial sightings, the so-called `guest stars' dated up to years ago. Their identification with mod…