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Originally Posted by busterb
OK. I'll bite. Just WTF is Johann Bayer's Uranometria star catalog.
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Its an old star atlas. There's others, like Flamsteed's and the New General Catalog (stuff in it is identified with the starting letters NGC) and Burnhams, and more.
I was gonna be a smart ass and say that it was something that you used to be able to order astronomy supplies out of before the Internet came along.