Thursday, January 06, 2005

Carte Du Ciel

(French: �Map of the Heavens�), projected photographic mapping of some 10 million stars in all parts of the sky that was planned to include all stars of the 14th magnitude or brighter and to list in an associated catalog all of the 12th magnitude or brighter. The plan, devised about 1887 by Am�d�e Mouchez, director of the Paris Observatory, involved the cooperation of 18 observatories

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