Celestial sphere

The Celestial Sphere

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In this article, we'll explore how the armillary sphere works, what the rings on it show, and how it helps visualize the movement of the Sun on the celestial sphere.

This is how we see the entire sky from the earth, projected to a sphere. This concept has been used for thousands of years since the stars are so far away that they seem to be fixed on an imaginary sphere. This image is oriented with the galactic plane (the Milky Way) horizontal. Concept inspiration [...]

Celestial sphere of earths axis

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Glass celestial sphere (72269/57/1), engraved by John Cowley, 1739, with globe stand by Heath & Wing, London, in the second half of the 18th century. Sphere broken and repaired during 1900s as the cracked and rivetted globe encloses a Newton terrestrial globe with printed gores dated Jan 1st 1897.