Talk:Star cartography

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This page will consume the following stubs or rippers:

1. Uranography - ripper,
2. Celestial atlas - stub,
3. Star atlas - a useful list, but stubby,
4. Stellar cartography - stubby the stub...

The discussion is ongoing on Talk:Uranography. Said: Rursus 20:25, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Intro needs rewriting 2 Stubs 3 Other articles to refer to 4 Future content 5 Star increment 6 "Star cartography" versus "astrometry" 7 Su song

[edit] Intro needs rewriting

I wrote it. I'm not the best of writers. Said: Rursus 22:11, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs

• Measurement technologies:
  • originally: quadrant like observatories for star positioning,
  • then optics: lenses, mirrors, sextants and the like,
  • then photography
  • thereafter: computers, adaptive and active optics, CCD.
• Celestial catalogues:
  • Almagest - stars,
  • Tabulae Rudolphinae - stars,
  • Prodromus astronomiae - stars,
  • Messier - "nebulae",
  • Herschel data - stars, "nebulae",
  • Argelander BD and follow ups, Dreyer NGC,
  • HD, SAO,
  • Hipparcos / Tycho,
  • USNO / Nomad
• Star atlases:
  • a resumé over how star-globes/star atlases developed from 1500 to today. 1. Petrus Plancius'es globes, 2. Bayer to Hevelius, 3. Golden age of heavenly illustrations, 4. telescopic technical star atlases, 5. computer age atlases and computer programs.

Said: Rursus 22:37, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other articles to refer to

• Spherical astronomy
• Astrometry

Said: Rursus 13:44, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Future content

Notes moved from Talk:Uranography. Said: Rursus 13:47, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Star increment

• Hipparchus: ~850 / 866?
• Ptolemy: number missing in article, at least 1028
• ~1600: Tycho Brahe: number missing in article, about 1004
• ~1625: Rudolphine Tables, Bartsch edition, (Tycho/Kepler/Bartsch): ?? D*RN - I have to read the tables myself!
• ~1690: Prodromus astronomiae, Johannes Hevelius: 1564
• ~1760: Fundamenta astronomiae, James Bradley/Friedrich Bessel: 3222
• thereafter an exponential explosion

Said: Rursus 05:26, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Star cartography" versus "astrometry"

Given that the introductory section of this article is so similar to the introduction for astrometry, should this article be moved to "astrometry"? I would hate to see astrometry made a redirect to this article. Dr. Submillimeter 12:49, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Su song

As I commented in Talk:Mercator projection -- how can you tell that the Su Song map is mercator projection? It looks somewhat like a cylindrical projection, though the unevent spacing of the meridians (if that's what they are) suggests that it is only very approximately that. But there are many cylindrical projections that are not Mercator. In fact, the claim that it shows "the correct position of the pole star" means that it cannot be Mercator, because a Mercator projection has the poles at infinity. Paul Koning 00:57, 4 October 2007 (UTC)