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    In astronomy, the fixed stars (Latin: stellae fixae) are the luminary points, mainly stars, that appear not to move relative to one another against the...
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    The Book of Fixed Stars (Arabic: كتاب صور الكواكب kitāb suwar al-kawākib, literally The Book of the Shapes of Stars) is an astronomical text written by...
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    The Behenian fixed stars are a selection of fifteen stars considered especially useful for magical applications in the medieval astrology of Europe and...
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    the Islamic development of the Celestial Globe. His book, The Book of Fixed Stars, designed for accuracy for the year 964, was a "description of the constellations...
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    an Iranian astronomer. His work Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib ("The Book of Fixed Stars"), written in 964, included both textual descriptions and illustrations...
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    Star (redirect from Stars)
    stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed points of light. The most prominent stars have...
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  • fixed stars. Hence, for Earth, it is also the time taken for the Sun to return to the same position relative to Earth with respect to the fixed stars...
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    consisting of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Fixed Stars, the Primum Mobile and finally, the Empyrean. It was written in the early...
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  • one approximated by the fixed stars. However, this is not required for the definition, and it is now known that those stars are in fact moving. According...
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    scale that is based on Earth's rate of rotation measured relative to the fixed stars". Viewed from the same location, a star seen at one position in the sky...
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