1750 ⟶ Lacaille Compiles Southern Star Catalog

French astronomer Nicolas de Lacaille sails to southern ocea...
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🔭 Lacaille Compiles Southern Star Catalog

French astronomer Nicolas de Lacaille sails to southern oceans and begins work compiling a catalog of more than 10,000 stars in the southern sky. Although Halley and others have observed from the Southern Hemisphere before, Lacaille's star catalog is the first comprehensive one of the southern sky.⟶
Lacaille Compiles Southern Star Catalog (1750)
AstronomyStar CatalogLacailleSouthern HemisphereCelestial ObservationMappingScientific ExpeditionEighteenth Century
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