• The modern constellation Octans is not included in the Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions system of traditional Chinese uranography because its...
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    located in the constellation. USS Octans (AF-26) was a stores ship used by the United States Navy during World War II. Octans (Chinese astronomy) The exception...
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    Sigma Octantis (redirect from Sigma octans)
    Sigma Octantis is a solitary star in the Octans constellation that forms the pole star of the Southern Hemisphere. Its name is also written as σ Octantis...
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    Traditional Chinese astronomy has a system of dividing the celestial sphere into asterisms or constellations, known as "officials" (Chinese 星官 xīng guān)...
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    Pretelescopic astronomy Babylonian astronomy Chinese astronomy Egyptian astronomy Greek astronomy Hebrew astronomy Indian astronomy Islamic astronomy Russian...
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    Circinus, Telescopium, Microscopium, Sculptor, Fornax, Caelum, Horologium, Octans, Mensa, Reticulum, Pictor, and Antlia. These dim constellations are scattered...
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    Antlia) are Caelum, Circinus, Fornax, Horologium, Microscopium, Norma, Octans, Pictor, Pyxis, Reticulum, Sculptor and Telescopium. Although parts of the...
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    Delta Octantis (category Octans)
    Vizier catalog entry "Octans". UK Astronomy Society. Archived from the original on 1 August 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2011. (in Chinese) AEEA (Activities...
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  • only a few hundred have been given proper names in the history of astronomy. Traditional astronomy tends to group stars into constellations or asterisms...
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    formation in the outer ring. Sculptor (AK-103) was a United States Navy Crater class cargo ship named after the constellation. Sculptor (Chinese astronomy) Notes...
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    Fornax (category Articles with Chinese-language sources (zh))
    In Chinese astronomy, the stars that correspond to Fornax are within the White Tiger of the West (西方白虎, Xī Fāng Bái Hǔ). Fornax (Chinese astronomy) The...
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    observational events in European astronomy. The earliest forms of these symbols appear in Greek papyrus texts of late antiquity. The Byzantine codices in which many...
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    this object might have escaped from the Large Magellanic Cloud. In ancient Chinese astronomy, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Pyxidis formed part of Tianmiao, a celestial...
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  • Lists of stars by constellation (category Lists of astronomy lists)
    Constellations and Star Names to the Classical Period: An Annotated Bibliography (Un)Common Star Names This article includes an astronomy-related list of lists....
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    Chamaeleon (category Articles with Chinese-language sources (zh))
    which is fairly faint. It appears in a telescope at about the same apparent size as Jupiter. In Chinese astronomy, the stars that form Chamaeleon were...
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    northeast, Phoenix to the north, Tucana to the northwest and west, and Octans to the south; Lacaille had shortened Hydrus' tail to make space for this...
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    west, Octans to the south, and Indus to the east and northeast. Covering 378 square degrees, it ranks 44th of the 88 modern constellations in size and...
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    In radio astronomy, a fast radio burst (FRB) is a transient radio pulse of length ranging from a fraction of a millisecond, for an ultra-fast radio burst...
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    Horologium) are Antlia, Caelum, Circinus, Fornax, Microscopium, Norma, Octans, Pictor, Pyxis, Reticulum, Sculptor and Telescopium. While parts of the...
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    Birds". Irregular in shape, Tucana is bordered by Hydrus to the east, Grus and Phoenix to the north, Indus to the west and Octans to the south. Covering...
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    which first appeared on a celestial globe in 1598. IAU-recognized constellations Indus (Chinese astronomy) Sasaki, Chris (2003). Constellations: The...
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    and Elizabeth Ina. At 16, he enrolled in the University of Denver to study chemistry. His interest in astronomy was aroused through a boyhood friend (Edgar...
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    "Discovery: New Moving Group in the Local Arm of the Milky Way". National Astronomical Observatories of China. Chinese Academy of Sciences. 13 May 2020...
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  • binary CSS21055: a white dwarf with a probable brown-dwarf companion". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 558: A96. arXiv:1312.5088. Bibcode:2013A&A...558A..96B...
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