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The Depth of the Heavens – Belief and Knowledge During 2500 Years
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Erik Høg
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February 8, 2017
Received: 2003-11-10
Published Online: 2017-2-8
Published in Print: 2003-12-1
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Articles in the same Issue
- Preface
- Stellar Photometry at the Crossroads of the Two Centuries
- Overview of Gaia Multi-Color Photometry
- The Depth of the Heavens – Belief and Knowledge During 2500 Years
- Photometry of Variable Stars, and System Transformability Over Long Time Intervals
- Near Continuous Photometry with the Whole Earth Telescope (WET)
- Setting Up of the Strömvil System Standards and Standard Regions
- Flatfielding Errors in Strömvil CCD Photometry
- The Reduction of CCD Images for Stellar Photometry on the Vatt
- Calibration of the Strömvil Photometric System
- Large-Scale Errors In CCD Photometry of M67
- The Development of Stellar Photometry in Russia and the USSR in the 20Th Century (Some Pages of History)
- Luminosity and Intrinsic Color Calibration of Main-Sequence Stars With 2Mass Photometry: All Sky Local Extinction
- Interstellar Extinction from Large Surveys
- Variations of the Ratio of Total-To-selective Extinction in the Galaxy
- Star Formation Histories with Gaia: The Galaxy and Beyond
- Selecting a Photometric System for Gaia: C, N, O and Alpha-Process Elements
- Stellar Populations of the Galactic Disk: Metallicity Distribution and Kinematics
- Classification of Metal-Deficient Dwarfs in the Vilnius Photometric System
- High-Precision UBVRI Photometry with a New 50 Cm Telescope at Stará Lesná
- Principles and Applications of the Synchronous Network of Remote Telescopes
- Fast CCD Photometry in the Taiwan-America Occultation Survey
- The Whole Earth Telescope Arrives to Lithuania
- Molėtai Observatory as a Part of The Whole Earth Telescope
- On the Data Reduction of WET Observations
- On a New Technique for Discovering Variable Stars
- Long-Term Photometric Behavior of 18 Carbon Stars in Cygnus
- Correction of UBV Photometry for Emission Lines
- Long-Term Photometry of Very Slow Novae
- Near-Infrared Colors of Carbon Stars in Cygnus
- Some Photometric Characteristics of Population II Orbital Visual Binary Stars
- On the Period of the Mira Variable LX Cygni
- Interstellar Extinction in the Gaia Photometric Systems
- Ultraviolet Passbands for a Space Multicolor Photometric System
- Recent UBVR Photometry of Symbiotic Stars
- Modeling the Radial Color Profile of M31
- On the Accuracy of Gaia Photometry
- Dual-Star Photometer at the Tallinn Observatory
- A New CCD Camera at the Molėtai Observatory
- Experience in CCD Photometry at the Tartu Observatory
- Overview of the History of Vilnius University Observatory
Keywords for this article
history and philosophy of astronomy;
astrometry;
cosmology;
distance scale
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Articles in the same Issue
- Preface
- Stellar Photometry at the Crossroads of the Two Centuries
- Overview of Gaia Multi-Color Photometry
- The Depth of the Heavens – Belief and Knowledge During 2500 Years
- Photometry of Variable Stars, and System Transformability Over Long Time Intervals
- Near Continuous Photometry with the Whole Earth Telescope (WET)
- Setting Up of the Strömvil System Standards and Standard Regions
- Flatfielding Errors in Strömvil CCD Photometry
- The Reduction of CCD Images for Stellar Photometry on the Vatt
- Calibration of the Strömvil Photometric System
- Large-Scale Errors In CCD Photometry of M67
- The Development of Stellar Photometry in Russia and the USSR in the 20Th Century (Some Pages of History)
- Luminosity and Intrinsic Color Calibration of Main-Sequence Stars With 2Mass Photometry: All Sky Local Extinction
- Interstellar Extinction from Large Surveys
- Variations of the Ratio of Total-To-selective Extinction in the Galaxy
- Star Formation Histories with Gaia: The Galaxy and Beyond
- Selecting a Photometric System for Gaia: C, N, O and Alpha-Process Elements
- Stellar Populations of the Galactic Disk: Metallicity Distribution and Kinematics
- Classification of Metal-Deficient Dwarfs in the Vilnius Photometric System
- High-Precision UBVRI Photometry with a New 50 Cm Telescope at Stará Lesná
- Principles and Applications of the Synchronous Network of Remote Telescopes
- Fast CCD Photometry in the Taiwan-America Occultation Survey
- The Whole Earth Telescope Arrives to Lithuania
- Molėtai Observatory as a Part of The Whole Earth Telescope
- On the Data Reduction of WET Observations
- On a New Technique for Discovering Variable Stars
- Long-Term Photometric Behavior of 18 Carbon Stars in Cygnus
- Correction of UBV Photometry for Emission Lines
- Long-Term Photometry of Very Slow Novae
- Near-Infrared Colors of Carbon Stars in Cygnus
- Some Photometric Characteristics of Population II Orbital Visual Binary Stars
- On the Period of the Mira Variable LX Cygni
- Interstellar Extinction in the Gaia Photometric Systems
- Ultraviolet Passbands for a Space Multicolor Photometric System
- Recent UBVR Photometry of Symbiotic Stars
- Modeling the Radial Color Profile of M31
- On the Accuracy of Gaia Photometry
- Dual-Star Photometer at the Tallinn Observatory
- A New CCD Camera at the Molėtai Observatory
- Experience in CCD Photometry at the Tartu Observatory
- Overview of the History of Vilnius University Observatory