- Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs, and surveys
Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs and surveys* ca.
1800 BC -Babylonia n star catalog
* ca.350 BC -Shi Shen 's star catalog has almost 800 entries
* ca.300 BC - star catalog ofTimocharis of Alexandria
* ca.134 BC -Hipparchus makes a detailedstar map
* ca.140 -Ptolemy completes his "Almagest ", which contains a catalog of stars, observations of planetary motions, and treatises ongeometry andcosmology
* ca.750 - The firstZij treatise, "Az-Zij ‛alā Sinī al-‛Arab", written byIbrahim al-Fazari andMuhammad al-Fazari
* ca.777 -Yaqūb ibn Tāriq 's "Az-Zij al-Mahlul min as-Sindhind li-Darajat Daraja"
* ca.830 -Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī 's "Zij al-Sindhind"
* ca.840 -Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī 's "Compendium of the Science of the Stars"
* ca.900 -Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī 's "Az-Zij as-Sabi"
*964 -Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī 's star catalog "Book of the Fixed Stars"
*1088 - The firstalmanac is the "Almanac of Azarqueil" written byAbū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Azarqueil)
*1115 -1116 -Al-Khazini 's "Az-Zij as-Sanjarī" ("Sinjaric Tables")
* ca.1150 -Gerard of Cremona publishes "Tables of Toledo " based on the work of Azarqueil
*1252 -1270 - "Alfonsine tables " recorded
*1272 -Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī 's "Zij-i Ilkhani " ("Ilkhanic Tables")
*1395 -Cheonsang Yeolcha Bunyajido star map created at the order ofKing Taejo
* ca.1400 -Jamshīd al-Kāshī 's "Khaqani Zij"
*1437 - Publication ofUlugh Beg 's "Zij-i-Sultani "
* late16th century -Tycho Brahe updates Ptolemy's "Almagest "
*1577 -1580 -Taqi al-Din 's "Unbored Pearl"
*1603 -Johann Bayer 's "Uranometria "
*1678 -Edmund Halley publishes a catalog of 341 southern stars, the first systematic southern sky survey
*1726 - Posthumous publication ofJohn Flamsteed 's "Historia Coelestis Britannica "
*1771 -Charles Messier publishes his first list ofnebula e
*1862 -Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander publishes his final edition of the "Bonner Durchmusterung " catalog of stars north ofdeclination -1°.
*1864 -John Herschel publishes the "General Catalogue" of nebulae and star clusters
*1887 - Paris conference institutes "Carte du Ciel " project to map entire sky to 14th magnitude photographically
*1890 - John Dreyer publishes the "New General Catalogue " of nebulae and star clusters
*1932 -Harlow Shapley andAdelaide Ames publish "A Survey of the External Galaxies Brighter than the Thirteenth Magnitude", later known as the "Shapley-Ames Catalog "
*1950 -1957 - Completion of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) with the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt opticalreflecting telescope . Actual date quoted varies upon source.
*1962 -A.S. Bennett of the Cambridge Radio Astronomy Group publishes the Revised 3C Catalogue of 328 radio sources
*1965 -Gerry Neugebauer andRobert Leighton begin a 2.2 micrometre sky survey with a 1.6-meter telescope on Mount Wilson
*1982 -IRAS space observatory completes an all-sky mid-infrared survey
*1990 - Publication of APM Galaxy Survey of 2+ million galaxies, to studyLarge-scale structure of the cosmos
*1991 -ROSAT space observatory begins an all-sky X-ray survey
*1993 - Start of the 20 cm VLA FIRST survey
*1997 - Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS ) commences, first version ofHipparcos Catalogue published
*1998 -Sloan Digital Sky Survey commences
*2003 -2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey published; 2MASS completes
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