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    Jean-Baptiste; Arago, François (1821). Recueil d'observations géodésiques, astronomiques et physiques, exécutées par ordre du Bureau des longitudes de France...
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    (developed by William Gascoigne) to a quadrant, and one of the first to use a micrometer screw on his instruments. The quadrant he used to determine the size...
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    constellations were formed from stars now included in Boötes. Quadrans Muralis, the Quadrant, was a constellation created near Beta Boötis from faint stars. It was...
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    pictures, contained a bright patch indicating a region in the southwestern quadrant 2,000 K hotter than the stellar surface. Subsequent ultraviolet spectra...
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    SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 18 February 2013. "Algol B". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved...
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  • Thumbnail for Metre
    unit of measurement to be called the astronomical radius (French: Rayon Astronomique). In 1675, Tito Livio Burattini suggested the term metro cattolico meaning...
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  • Thumbnail for Coma Berenices
    88 modern constellations. It is in the direction of the fourth galactic quadrant, between Leo and Boötes, and it is visible in both hemispheres. Its name...
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  • Thumbnail for Ulugh Beg Observatory
    by Nasir al-din al-Tusi. Ulugh Beg's observatory included the largest quadrant principle device. The building was not tall but was allowed a maximal size...
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    (Delta Cep Type)". SIMBAD Astronomical Database. Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 19 August 2014. Kaler, James B. "Polaris"....
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    planetary nebula would be plotted to the right of the diagram's upper right quadrant. A black hole emits no visible light of its own, and therefore would not...
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