The Carte du Ciel (French pronunciation: [kaʁt dy sjɛl]; literally, 'Map of the Sky') and the Astrographic Catalogue (or Astrographic Chart) were two...

became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887. Born in Madrid, Spain, Mouchez embarked on a career...

instruments for observatories, and were involved in the origin of the Carte du Ciel project. Between the two of them, they discovered a total of 14 asteroids...

the 6th Nizam of Kingdom of Hyderabad in 1901. It participated in the Carte du Ciel making 463,542 observations. It boasted of an 8" Cooke Astrograph and...

lunar dynamics and, in collaboration with Maurice Loewy, the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project. Puiseux created a photographic atlas of the Moon based on 6000...

greatly expanded the observatory and enthusiastically supported the Carte du Ciel project. He specialized in celestial mechanics, in particular the motions...

of the Great Comet of 1882, and one of the early proponents of the Carte du Ciel project. The invention of dry plate photography by Richard Leach Maddox...

Catalogue of nebulae and star clusters 1887 — Paris conference institutes Carte du Ciel project to map entire sky to 14th magnitude photographically 1890 —...

equipment. He produced instruments for many participants of the 1887 Carte du Ciel project. Gautier came from a modest Parisian family and was forced to...

1937 to 1947 he was also the director of the Pic du Midi observatory and directed the Carte du Ciel from 1922 to 1947. Baillaud was the President of the...

participated in the international star directory and star map project "Carte du Ciel". The star directory photograph work began in 1890 in Helsinki and it...

institution named Vatican Observatory participated in creating the Carte du Ciel, but they have progressively become useless or limited for research...

Still awaiting the reunion with its 19th-century camera used in the Carte du Ciel project and to prove Einstein's general relativity theory during the...

to make surveys of the night sky, and one of the famous projects was Carte du Ciel. Discoveries using an astrograph include then-planet Pluto. Rather than...

instrument that catalysed what proved to be the over-ambitious international Carte du Ciel project.[citation needed] In November 1913, the observatory used the...

world which worked together to create a photographic "Celestial Map" ("Carte du Ciel") and an "astrographic" catalog pinpointing the stars' positions. Italian...

compilation of star catalogues. Started in the late 19th century, the project Carte du Ciel to improve star mapping could not be finished but made photography a...

This star had been captured on a plate taken November 11, 1896 for the Carte du Ciel Catalog of Toulouse and it showed an apparent magnitude of 12.3. Prominent...

weather balloons were launched in 1906. Belgium participated in the Carte du Ciel and the Astrographic Catalogue; observations lasted until 1964. In 1913...

faint to be seen by the human eye. 1887 – Paris conference institutes Carte du Ciel project to map entire sky to 14th magnitude photographically 1888 –...

in the 1990s and is now used by students at UNAM in Mexico City. A Carte du Ciel-type double-astrograph refractor with 33 cm (13 in) lens in the larger...

the end of the 1880s the observatory took part in the international "Carte du Ciel" project to map the heavens using the, then novel, technique of photography...

Mouchez, who suggested an international meeting in Paris. This led to the Carte du Ciel project, which required photographing the entire sky and showing stars...

Observatory, among others. While mapping the ecliptic during their Carte du Ciel survey, they made all their fourteen, low-numbered asteroid discoveries...

astrographique (Astrographic Catalogue) was part of the international Carte du Ciel programme designed to photograph and measure the positions of all stars...

technology involved many significant events, listed below. April – Carte du Ciel project initiated by Paris Observatory director Amédée Mouchez. Theodor...

all-sky photographic astrometry project, Astrographic Catalogue and Carte du Ciel, was started in 1887. It was conducted by 20 observatories all using...

during the 1920s •Participated in the international astronomical project(Carte-du-Ciel) in 1909 •Studied Potsdam zone from 36 degrees to 39 degrees N in the...

refractor built by Gautier was installed in 1894 at Quinta Normal. It is a Carte du Ciel-type astrograph. It was moved to Lo Espejo and then Cerro Calán, where...

compiled five of the twelve volumes of the Southern African part of the Carte du Ciel. Hough measured with high accuracy the positions of more than 20,000...