Uranometria Nova (English spelling)

Japanese: 《Uranometria Nova》(英語表記)UranometriaNova
Uranometria Nova (English spelling)

…He was the first director of the Bonn Observatory in 1837. In 1843 he published Uranometria Nova, a record of all the stars visible to the naked eye. He then devoted himself to the compilation of star catalogs, completing the first part (north of declination -2°) of the catalog known as the Bonn Catalogue, which contained 324,000 stars brighter than magnitude 9.5. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Uranometria Nova" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…1837年ボン天文台初代台長。43年には肉眼で見えるすべての星を記録した《Uranometria Nova》を出版した。引き続いて星表の作製に全力を注ぎ,9.5等より明るい恒星32万4000個を含む《ボン掃天星表》として知られている星表の第1部(赤緯-2゜以北)を完成した。…

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