Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An extended list of fixed stars, as complete as possible within specified limits of magnitude, place, etc., with their places and magnitudes.
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The calculation of R.A. of Fundamental Stars was made homogeneously with the others: separate results of all were included in ledgers: a star-catalogue was formed: all as to the present time (1871).
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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He had been above nine years at work on his star-catalogue, and was still profoundly unconscious that a place amongst the Lilienthal band [201] of astronomical detectives was being held in reserve for him, when, on the first evening of the nineteenth century, January 1, 1801, he noticed the position of an eighth-magnitude star in a part of the constellation Taurus to which an error of Wollaston's had directed his special attention.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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a large scale in the star-catalogue of the Astronomical Society
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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