Histoire Céleste Française

Histoire Céleste Française (French Celestial History) is an astrometric star catalogue published in 1801 by the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande and his staff at the Paris Observatory. This star catalog consists of the locations and apparent magnitudes of 47,390 stars, up to magnitude 9. Stars are identified by common name, Bayer designation or Flamsteed designation, when available. It also contains observations of other astronomical phenomena. It was the largest and most complete star catalog of its day. This publication is a collection of several books of astronomical recordings taken over the previous decade at the observatory.[1]

Histoire Céleste Française
Survey typestar catalogue, literary work 
Targetstar catalogue, Astronomy 
Published1801, 1847 
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A significant rewriting of this popular catalog was published in 1847. It is from this catalog that the star reference numbers were assigned that continue in use to this day, such as for Lalande 21185.[2]

Modern star catalogs, such as SIMBAD, use the format LAL NNNNN where NNNNN is the 1847 catalog reference number, from 1 to 47390.[3]

References
  1. thomaspynchon.com, Mason-Dixon, Joseph-Jérôme de Lalande Archived 2009-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Baily, F. (1847), A catalogue of those stars in the "Histoire Celeste Francaise" of J. De Lalande for which tables of reduction to the session define format EPOCH1 = 1800 have been published by Professor Schumacher, London: British Association for the Advancement of Science, Bibcode:1950Lalan1847....0B
  3. SIMBAD, ©UDS/CNRS SIMBAD Lalande stars (retrieved 23:20, 11 September 2009).

Further reading
  • Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande (1801). Histoire céleste française (in French). tome premier. Paris: Imprimerie de la République.


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