- 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...
- 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...
- The
Behenian fixed stars are a
selection of
fifteen stars considered especially useful for
magical applications in the
medieval astrology of
Europe and...
-
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...
- an
Iranian astronomer. His work Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib ("The Book of
Fixed Stars"),
written in 964,
included both
textual descriptions and illustrations...
-
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...
- the Moon;
observation of the sky from altitude;
observation of
certain fixed stars from
different locations;
observing the Sun;
surface navigation; grid...
-
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...
-
theory rather than observation. He
established the idea of a
sphere of
fixed stars that
rotated about Earth. This was
accepted by most of
those who came...
-
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...
