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WG All Skies Encyclopaedia

building and filling up an infrastructure for research data management of names of stars and constellations
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Information

Start Date: 2024-01-01

Website: currently developed on a virtual machine of our universityExternal link

human in celestial sphere
human in celestial sphere
Graphic: Susanne M Hoffmann

This project consists of two main goals:

  1. provide the Working Group Star Names of the International Astronomical Union with information on historical and indigenous names for stars, constellations and all sorts of asterisms. Therefore, it also contains information on the 89 globally defined constellation names (for 88 constellations).  
  2. embed the traditional Assyriological dictionary "Planetarium Babylonicum". 

Members

Partner Projects

  • Book Shelfs in Chinguetti
    Image: Susanne M Hoffmann
    Babylonian Star Heavens, Now Mapped ISF-funded co-project at Hebrew University Jerusalem: re-editing Kurtik's Mesopotamian Star Name Dictionary (since 2021)
  • IAU WGSN (Logo)
    Graphic: Javier Mejuto
    IAU WGSN The Working Group Star Names of the International Astronomical Union collects names of stars and constellations from indigenous and historical astronomies all over the world.
  • Meteorology Beyond Borders
    Image: Korobili and Hoffmann
    Meteorology Beyond Borders This project on Aristotle's meteorology targets at a dictionary for terms of celestial phenomena - might them be weather or astronomical.
Cultural Astronomy | Babylonian Astronomy
Susanne M. Hoffmann, Dr
PI/ Group Leader
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