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Tycho Brahe, Abu Mashar, and the comet beyond Venus (ninth century A.D.)
Ralph Neuhaeuser, Paul Kunitzsch, Markus Mugrauer +2
From his observations of the A.D. 1572 super-nova and the A.D. 1577 comet, Tycho Brahe concluded that such transient celestial objects are outside the Earth's atmosphere, and he qu…
No evidence for an early seventeenth-century Indian sighting of Keplers supernova (SN1604)
Robert H. van Gent
In a recent paper Sule et al. (Astronomical Notes, vol. 332 (2011), 655) argued that an early 17th-century Indian mural of the constellation Sagittarius with a dragon-headed tail i…
The star catalogues of Ptolemaios and Ulugh Beg: Machine-readable versions and comparison with the modern Hipparcos Catalogue
Frank Verbunt, Robert H. van Gent
In late antiquity and throughout the middle ages, the positions of stars on the celestial sphere were obtained from the star catalogue of Ptolemaios. A catalogue based on new measu…
Early star catalogues of the southern sky: De Houtman, Kepler (Second and Third Classes), and Halley
Frank Verbunt, Robert H. van Gent
De Houtman in 1603, Kepler in 1627 and Halley in 1679 published the earliest modern catalogues of the southern sky. We provide machine-readable versions of these catalogues, make s…
The Star Catalogue of Hevelius
Frank Verbunt, Robert H. van Gent
The catalogue by Johannes Hevelius with the positions and magnitudes of 1564 entries was published by his wife Elisabeth Koopman in 1690. We provide a machine-readable version of t…
Three editions of the Star Catalogue of Tycho Brahe
Frank Verbunt, Robert H. van Gent
Tycho Brahe completed his catalogue with the positions and magnitudes of 1004 fixed stars in 1598. This catalogue circulated in manuscript form. Brahe edited a shorter version with…