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Timeline of
astronomical maps ,
catalogs and
surveys
c. 1800 BC —
Babylonian star catalog (see
Babylonian star catalogues )
c. 1370 BC; Observations for the Babylonia
MUL.APIN (an astro catalog).
[1]
c. 350 BC —
Shi Shen 's star catalog has almost 800 entries
c. 300 BC — star catalog of
Timocharis of Alexandria
c. 134 BC —
Hipparchus makes a detailed
star map
c. 150 —
Ptolemy completes his
Almagest , which contains a catalog of stars, observations of planetary motions, and treatises on
geometry and
cosmology
c. 705 —
Dunhuang Star Chart , a manuscript star chart from the
Mogao Caves at
Dunhuang
c. 750 — The first
Zij treatise, Az-Zij ‛alā Sinī al-‛Arab , written by
Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī and
Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī
c. 777 —
Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq 's Az-
Zij al-Mahlul min as-Sindhind li-Darajat Daraja
c. 830 —
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi 's
Zij al-Sindhind
c. 840 —
Al-Farghani 's Compendium of the Science of the Stars
c. 900 —
Al-Battani 's Az-
Zij as-Sabi
964 —
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi)'s star catalog
Book of the Fixed Stars
1031 —
Al-Biruni 's
al-Qanun al-Mas'udi , making first use of a
planisphere projection, and discussing the use of the
astrolabe and the
armillary sphere .
1088 — The first
almanac is the Almanac of Azarqueil written by
Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Azarqueil)
1115–1116 —
Al-Khazini 's Az-
Zij as-Sanjarī (Sinjaric Tables )
c. 1150 —
Gerard of Cremona publishes
Tables of Toledo based on the work of
Azarqueil
1252–1270 —
Alfonsine tables recorded by order of
Alfonso X
[2]
[3]
1272 —
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi 's
Zij-i Ilkhani (Ilkhanic Tables )
1395 —
Cheonsang Yeolcha Bunyajido star map created at the order of
King Taejo
c. 1400 —
Jamshid al-Kashi 's Khaqani Zij
1437 — Publication of
Ulugh Beg 's
Zij-i-Sultani
1551 —
Prussian Tables by
Erasmus Reinhold
late 16th century —
Tycho Brahe updates Ptolemy's
Almagest
1577–1580 —
Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf 's Unbored Pearl
1598 —
Tycho Brahe publishes his "Thousand Star Catalog"
[4]
1603 —
Johann Bayer 's
Uranometria
1627 —
Johannes Kepler publishes his
Rudolphine Tables of 1006 stars from Tycho plus 400 more
[5]
[6]
1678 —
Edmond Halley publishes a catalog of 341 southern stars, the first systematic southern sky survey
1712 —
Isaac Newton and
Edmond Halley publish a catalog based on data from a Royal Astronomer who left all his data under seal, the official version would not be released for another decade.
[7]
1725 — Posthumous publication of
John Flamsteed 's
Historia Coelestis Britannica
1771 —
Charles Messier publishes his first list of
nebulae
1824 —
Urania's Mirror by
Sidney Hall
1862 —
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander publishes his final edition of the
Bonner Durchmusterung catalog of stars north of
declination -1°.
1864 —
John Herschel publishes the
General Catalogue of nebulae and star clusters
1887 — Paris conference institutes
Carte du Ciel project to map entire sky to 14th magnitude photographically
1890 —
John Dreyer publishes the
New General Catalogue of nebulae and star clusters
1932 —
Harlow Shapley and
Adelaide Ames publish A Survey of the External Galaxies Brighter than the Thirteenth Magnitude , later known as the
Shapley-Ames Catalog
1948 —
Antonín Bečvář publishes the
Skalnate Pleso Atlas of the Heavens (Atlas Coeli Skalnaté Pleso 1950.0 )
1950–1957 — Completion of the
Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) with the Palomar 48-inch
Schmidt optical
reflecting telescope . Actual date quoted varies upon source.
1962 —
A.S. Bennett of the
Cambridge Radio Astronomy Group publishes the Revised
3C Catalogue of 328 radio sources
1965 —
Gerry Neugebauer and
Robert Leighton begin a 2.2 micrometre sky survey with a 1.6-meter telescope on Mount Wilson
1982 —
IRAS
space observatory completes an all-sky mid-
infrared survey
1990 — Publication of APM Galaxy Survey of 2+ million galaxies, to study
large-scale structure of the cosmos
1991 —
ROSAT
space observatory begins an all-sky
X-ray survey
1993 — Start of the 20 cm
VLA FIRST survey
1997 — Two Micron All Sky Survey (
2MASS ) commences, first version of
Hipparcos Catalogue published
1998 —
Sloan Digital Sky Survey commences
2003 —
2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey published; 2MASS completes
2012 — On March 14, 2012, a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky as imaged by
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer was released.
[8]
2020 — On July 19, 2020, after a 20-year-long survey, astrophysicists of the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey published the
largest, most detailed 3D map of the universe so far , fill a gap of 11 billion years in
its expansion history , and provide data which supports the theory of a flat
geometry of the universe and confirms that different regions seem to be
expanding at
different speeds .
[9]
[10]
2020 — On October 8, 2020, scientists released the largest and most detailed 3D
maps of the Universe , called "PS1-STRM". The data of the
MAST was created using
artificial neural networks and combines data from the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others. Users can query the dataset online or download it in its entirety of ~300GB.
[11]
[12]
[13]
2021 — A celestial map is published to the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics identifying over 250,000 supermassive black holes, using data from 52 stations across nine different countries in Europe.
[14]
See also
References
^
"Astronomer traces Zodiac's time and place of birth" .
The Inquirer . 4 June 2007. Retrieved 2009-11-13 .
^ Owen Gingerich: The Book Nobody Read . Walker, 2004, Ch. 4 (
ISBN
0-8027-1415-3 )
^
Astronomical Tables
^
Tycho's 1004-Star Catalog: The First Critical Edition , edited and analyzed by
Dennis Rawlins
^ Uranometria 2000.0, vol 1, page XVII, Tirion, Lovi and Rappaport, 1987,
ISBN
0-943396-15-8
^ The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 1988, Volume 10, pg. 232
^ Jardine, Lisa (15 March 2013).
"A Point of View: Crowd-sourcing comets" . Magazine . BBC News. Retrieved 20 May 2013 .
^
"NASA Releases New WISE Mission Catalog of Entire Infrared Sky" . Nasa JPL. March 14, 2012. Retrieved March 15, 2012 .
^
"Largest-ever 3D map of the universe released by scientists" . Sky News . Retrieved 18 August 2020 .
^
"No need to Mind the Gap: Astrophysicists fill in 11 billion years of our universe's expansion history" . SDSS. Retrieved 18 August 2020 .
^
"Astronomers produce largest 3-D catalog of galaxies" . phys.org . Retrieved 9 November 2020 .
^ Williams, Matt (14 October 2020).
"The Most Comprehensive 3D Map of Galaxies Has Been Released" . Universe Today . Retrieved 9 November 2020 .
^ Szapudi, Istvan; Beck, Robert (2020).
"PS1-STRM" . MAST . STScI/MAST.
doi :
10.17909/t9-rnk7-gr88 . Retrieved 9 November 2020 .
Data available under
CC BY 4.0 .
^ University, Leiden.
"Astronomers publish map showing 25,000 supermassive black holes" . phys.org . Retrieved 2023-02-27 .