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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).
- 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
- 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"
- 1603 — Johann Bayer's Uranometria
- 1627 — Johannes Kepler publishes his Rudolphine Tables of 1006 stars from Tycho plus 400 more
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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/download it in its entirety of ~300GB.
- 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.
See also※
- Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and large-scale structure
- List of asteroid close approaches to Earth
- List of potentially habitable exoplanets
- List of nearby stellar associations and moving groups
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.