Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs, and surveys

'''Nextel ringtones Timeline of Abbey Diaz astronomy/astronomical maps, catalogs and surveys'''

* Free ringtones 1800 BC - Majo Mills Babylonian star catalog
* Mosquito ringtone 350 BC - Sabrina Martins Shin Shen's star catalog has almost 800 entries
* Nextel ringtones 134 BC - Abbey Diaz Hipparchus makes a detailed Free ringtones star map
* ca. Majo Mills 140 - Cingular Ringtones Ptolemy completes his ''says willis Almagest'', which contains a catalog of stars, observations of planetary motions, and treatises on department announced geometry and ostensibly work cosmology
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* local pride 963 - popularity did al-Sufi's star catalog ''contract told Book of the Fixed Stars''
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* bloom tells 1437 - Publication of thirlmere the Ulugh Beg's ''no prevailing Zij-i-Sultani''
* late definitely say 16th century - both animals Tycho Brahe updates Ptolemy's ''star delightfully Almagest''
* computation my 1603 - edition staunchly Johann Bayer's ''Uranometria''
* 1678 - Edmund Halley publishes a catalog of 341 southern stars, the first systematic southern sky survey
* 1726 - Posthumous publication of John Flamsteed's ''Historia Coelestis Britannica''
* 1771 - Charles Messier publishes his first list of nebulae
* 1862 - Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander publishes his final edition of the ''Bonner Durchmusterung'' catalog of stars north of declination -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 mag photographically
* 1890 - John Dreyer publishes the ''New General Catalogue'' of nebulae and star clusters
* 1932 - Harlow Shapley and Adelaide 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/Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) with the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt optical reflecting telescope. Actual date quoted varies upon source.
* 1962 - A.S. Bennett of the Cavendish Astrophysics Group/Cambridge Radio Astronomy Group publishes the Revised 3C Catalog of 328 radio sources
* 1965 - Gerry Neugebauer and Robert 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 study Large-scale structure of the cosmos
* 1991 - ROSAT space observatory begins an all-sky X-ray astronomy/X-ray survey
* 1993 - Start of the 20 cm Very Large Array/VLA FIRST survey
* 1997 - Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) commences
* 1998 - Sloan Digital Sky Survey commences
* 2003 - 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey published; 2MASS completes

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