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	Uranometria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Uranometria is the short title of a star atlas produced by Johann Bayer.
		This translates to "Uranometria, containing charts of all the constellations, drawn by a new method and engraved on copper plates".
		Uranometria introduced the Bayer star designations, which are still used today.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uranometria (687 words)

	Uranometria: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Uranometria is the short title of a star atlas Star atlas quick summary:
		The positions used by Bayer to create the Uranometria were taken from the expanded 1,005 star catalog of Tycho Brahe Tycho Brahe quick summary:
		Uranometria introduced the Bayer star designations[For more info, click on this link], EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/ur/uranometria.htm (1217 words)

	Royal Society \| About the Society \| Library and Archives \| Library collections \| News from the Library - March (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Uranometria, by the German lawyer Johann Bayer, was published in Augsburg in 1603.
		Uranometria featured 51 star charts, engraved by the artist Alexander Mair and including a map of the newly-discovered southern skies.
		Uranometria also contained innovative tables giving the descriptions and magnitudes of the stars in each constellation.
	www.royalsoc.ac.uk /page.asp?id=4195 (1800 words)

	Uranometria 2000.0 version 2
		The previous version of Uranometria 2000.0, from the early '90s was useful primarily as a cross-reference check for me, as I have and use a computerized scope with a large object memory.
		Uranometria was often referred to to clarify an ID in a crowded field.
		However, the previous version of Uranometria did not contain enough deep sky objects to resolve a lot of questions AND it often perpetuated the incorrect positions in the NGC for faint objects.
	www.cloudynights.com /item.php?item_id=176 (399 words)

	DOC: Uranometria 2000.0
		Before the Uranometria 2000.0 atlas became available, like many deepsky observers, I was using the old SAO Atlas.
		This atlas is not the most user-friendly, but it did at least show faint stars, which made star-hopping possible with the narrow field of the 15.5-inch f/9 I was using.
		The Uranometria 2000.0 was the brainchild of Perry Remaklus, president of Willmann-Bell, Inc. In the 80's, Remaklus had been using the little-known 1944 "Webbs Atlas of the Stars" and was also familiar with Tirion's Sky Atlas 2000.0.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/borley/49/uranomet.htm (347 words)

	Why You Need Uranometria 2000.
		Uranometria 2000 is a two volume star atlas, co-authored by Wil Tirion, Barry Rappaport, and George Lovi, first published in 1987 by Willmann-Bell, Inc. It consists of 473 separate charts, with more than 300,000 stars plotted down to magnitude 9.5, plus more than 10,000 deep-sky objects.
		The first volume covers the northern hemisphere from the north pole to -6 degrees declination, while volume two covers the southern hemisphere from the south pole to +6 degrees declination (thus providing 12 degrees of overlap between the two volumes).
		A companion to Uranometria 2000 is the Deep Sky Field Guide to Uranometria 2000.
	www.umich.edu /~lowbrows/reflections/2001/dscobel.6.html (1025 words)

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		For one thing the constellations, useful as they were to goat herders 5000 years ago and despite the cultural job they provide for historians, are nothing but obstacles to today's fast-lane observers.
		The URANOMETRIA 2000.0 map number is now the key to the data." "With...
		[this book] and URANOMETRIA 2000.0, you are about to experience the joy of having a map to 9.5 magnitude and the non-stellar tabular data for just that map.
	www.edu-observatory.org /eo/bkr/bkr.93.03 (1014 words)

	Art Russell's Star-Hopping
		The next step, and arguably the current standard, is Uranometria 2000.0, which in its two volumes, charts some 300,000 odd stars to magnitude 9.5 as well as 10,300 non-stellar objects[12].
		Uranometria 2000.0 is my preferred star atlas when I’m not using Megastar to prepare finder charts.
		Turning to the back pages of Uranometria, 2000.0, Volume 1, The Northern Hemisphere, presents an azimuthal equal area projection of the constellations superimposed over a grid representing the Uranometria's 259 charts in Volume 1, where we find that Alpha Pegasi is located on chart 213 (Figure 1).
	education.gsu.edu /spehar/FOCUS/Astronomy/star-hop/Star-Hopping.htm (2533 words)

	Astronomy Education Review
		The background is taken from Uranometria, which is one of the classic stellar atlases.
		Bayer was the first to represent these stars (the positions and constellation names came from a catalog by Pietr Keyser, who mapped the southern sky during a voyage in the year 1595-1597).
		He combined Greek letters with the constellation name to indicate the brightest stars in each constellation (e.g., the brightest star in the Centaur is Alpha Centauri, the second brightest is Beta Centauri, and so on).
	aer.noao.edu /about.html (614 words)

	Star Hopping Primerby Paul Markov,
		Uranometria comes in two thick volumes showing starts to magnitude 9.5 (total of 332,000 stars) and a total of 10,300 deep sky objects.
		Because each chart is just 9" X 12" only a small portion of the sky is plotted on one page, so you will find it useful to use this atlas in conjunction with a larger scale atlas, such as Sky Atlas 2000.
		Just like Uranometria, you will need to use a larger scale atlas together with Millenium because each 9" X 13" chart shows only a very small part of the sky.
	www.astrobuysell.com /paul/starhop.htm (2346 words)

	1603 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		December 22 - Mehmed III Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed I.
		Johann Bayer's Uranometria, an atlas of the southern sky, is published.
		Tokugawa Ieyasu granted title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan and establishes the Edo or Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1603 (635 words)

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		Although map 397 of Uranometria II gives some idea of the size, m actual fact the photographable part is considerably larger.
		According to our Technical Officer, what Uranometria II labels as "Gum Nebula" is in fact "Vela SNR", of which some pieces have Gum designations.
		There are several small fragments on other charts in Uranometria II that are associated with this SNR, but this is not obvious as these fragments have other names.
	www.asnsw.com /articles/bngc/bngc8.htm (914 words)

	Contemporary Index Into Halton Arp's Peculiar Galaxies
		These three columns are the focal lengths in inches of the optical system necessary to duplicate Arp's original image using the named CCD camera.
		In general, where the galaxy appears in Uranometria, the Deep Sky Field Guide's algorithm for computing VT is assumed.
		Galaxies listed in the Uranometria 2000.0 Deep Sky Field Guide are indicated by reference to the chart number.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /niagara/data/nasa/7192.xml (4092 words)

	Zoom Astronomy Glossary: U
		Uranometria was a detailed star chart/catalog made by Johannes Bayer in 1603.
		It contained 51 star charts (one for each of the 48 Ptolemaic constellations, a chart of the newly-discovered southern skies, and two planispheres), using his new method of classifying stars.
		The current edition of Uranometria plots every star in the sky down to magnitude 9.5 (each star is given a Uranometria Chart Number).
	www.zoomschool.com /subjects/astronomy/glossary/indexu.shtml (739 words)

	Johann Bayer, Uranometria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Uranometria, published in 1603 by the German lawyer Johann Bayer, opened a new age in the history of celestial cartography.
		In this atlas the maps stand out both for their careful indication of the star positions and brightness and for the very attractive plates.
		Bayer's Uranometria is the first among the celestial atlases which represent the stars around the south pole.
	www.bo.astro.it /~biblio/atlas/bayer-in.htm (107 words)

	Canberra Astronomical Society - Southern Cross - September 1998
		To look briefly at Uranometria (another Tirion project), I have found some WDS pairs - including those visible with modest (15-20 cm) apertures - are not shown as double on Uranometria.
		Nearby 16 Aurigae is a double, marked as such on Uranometria and the old SA 2000, not marked double on the new version of SA 2000.
		This is absent from the new SA 2000, is shown as a diffuse nebula on the old SA 2000, and as a planetary nebula on Uranometria.
	msowww.anu.edu.au /cas/southerncross/sc_199809.html (3170 words)

	Amazon.com: Uranometria 2000 Point Zero: The Northern Hemisphere to Minus 6 Degrees: Books: Wil Tirion,Barry ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The publication of Uranometria marked a new era in sky atlases.
		Now, since Uranometria goes to stellar magnitude 9.5, and an 8-inch scope will see to magnitude 14, you can say the situation is still the same.
		The Uranometria 2000 is a big step up from the old Norton's Star Atlas and a must have for any serious deep sky observing.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/094339614X?v=glance (1144 words)

	NGC 6559 Nebulae Complex
		Dark Nebula B 303, seen here as a dark serpentine structure just 3 arc minutes southeast of the brightest star in the photo which is 7.6 magnitude.
		B 303 is apparently mis-plotted in Uranometria 2000, as well as Megastar, and although the Deep Sky Field Guide describes its location correctly in the notes, it's R.A. and Dec location are incorrect, listed at R.A.: 18 09' 12", and Dec: -24 07' 00".
		It is listed in Uranometria, and Megastar as PK6-2.1 but apparently it is not a planetary nebula.
	www.astropix.com /HTML/D_SUM_S/NGC6559.HTM (432 words)

	Abell 426 Observing Project
		Uranometria 2000.0 shows a close up plot of this cluster on chart A4.
		Most of the fainter galaxies are not plotted in Uranometria 2000.0.
		IC316: Plotted in Uranometria, and often referred to as one galaxy.
	pw2.netcom.com /~ahighe/a426.html (3400 words)

	Constellation of Pisces from 'Uranometria' by Johann Bayer Giclee Print by Johann Bayer at AllPosters.com
		Constellation of Pisces from 'Uranometria' by Johann Bayer by Johann Bayer
		Constellation of Libra from 'Uranometria' by Johann Bayer
		Constellation of Pisces from 'Uranometria' by Johann Bayer
	www.allposters.com /-sp/Constellation-of-Pisces-from-Uranometria-by-Johann-Bayer_i1586439_.htm?aid=974174 (130 words)

	DOC: Uranometria 2000.0 Chart Indices
		If you know which Uranometria chart you are interested in, use the list of chart numbers to look it up.
		In case you need to take a look at the Uranometria index map to volume 2, follow the "Index Maps" link.
		If you know when the object is visible, find out which Uranometria charts are visible at this time.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/borley/49/chartidx.htm (218 words)

	Uranometria 2000.0, Volume 1: Deep Sky Atlas, The Northern Hemisphere to -6 - 96719
		Uranometria 2000.0, Volume 1: Deep Sky Atlas, The Northern Hemisphere to -6 - 96719
		Uranometria 2000.0, Volume 1: Deep Sky Atlas, The Northern Hemisphere to -6
		The three-volume Uranometria set contains 220 double-page star charts with a limiting magnitude of 9.75.
	www.shopatsky.com /index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=298 (122 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Having said that, paradoxically the first on this month's list, HP 1 was successfully observed from Ilford with the late 12" telescope mainly, perhaps, because (a) its plotted position in the very crowded star field in Uranometria II is exactly correct; and (b) its tiny, but [relatively] sharp-edged and hence [relatively] easy appearance.
		Palomar 6, again accurately drawn in Uranometria II (and with very good field guide stars nearby), is a complete contrast - in Johannes it is very much larger and much more diffuse.
		Found exactly in its plotted Uranometria II position, it's relatively large, but with a surprisingly dense, bright and "cometary" nucleus: clearly, it "should" have been an NGC globular.
	www.asnsw.com /articles/bngc/bngc12.htm (684 words)

	Deep Sky Field Guide to Uranometria 2000.0
		The most comprehensive stellar/deep sky atlas and data resource we have seen, the three volumes of Uranometria 2000.0 are so much more than a "Second Edition," they can only be considered the fulfillment of that process to which the first edition was but prologue.
		More than 280,000 stars and over 30,000 deep sky non-stellar objects are located with a degree of accuracy heretofore unavailable in one resource.
		Encyclopedic in nature, with beautifully redrawn maps, a host of efficient navigation tools, and more accurate catalog data for three times the number of deep sky objects shown in the preceding work, Uranometria 2000.0 is clearly an atlas and guide every telescope user, whatever their aperture, will want to own.
	www.dekoepel.nl /winkel/10000096190b8eb37/10000096200e50dcf/10000096200e578e1/10000096300aa932d.html (185 words)

	Constellation of Capricorn, from 'Uranometria' by Johann Bayer Giclee Print by Johann Bayer at AllPosters.com
		Constellation of Capricorn, from 'Uranometria' by Johann Bayer by Johann Bayer
		The Giclee printing process delivers a fine stream of ink on archival paper, resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery display.
		Constellation of Capricorn, from 'Uranometria' by Johann Bayer
	www.allposters.com /-sp/Constellation-of-Capricorn-from-Uranometria-by-Johann-Bayer_i1586434_.htm?aid=974174 (130 words)

	Uranometria 2000.0 Deep Sky Atlas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Uranometria 2000.0, Volume 1: Deep Sky Atlas, The Northern Hemisphere to -6° by Wil
		Uranometria 2000.0, Volume 1: Deep Sky Atlas, The Northern Hemisphere to -6° - £40.00
		Uranometria 2000.0, Volume 2: Deep Sky Atlas, The Southern Hemisphere to +6° - £40.00
	www.scsastro.co.uk /it250006.htm (116 words)

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