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  • ...heaven,’ perhaps originally referring to the background gleam of the night-sky in general.   ...''Burrum'' AN.NA = "Sparkling sky"(?), lit. "The variegated (multicolored) sky"; part of the constellation [[PA.BIL.SAG]]<sup>(?)</sup>.
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  • The Hyades are a significant pattern of stars in the sky that has been recognized as an asterism or constellation by almost all cult .... The modern name, Aldebaran, is Arabic and alludes to its position in the sky. The Pleiades rise first, followed by Aldebaran and the Hyades. Ad-Dabaran
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  • ...the country of Norway, it follows the name theme Terms associated with the sky and celestial bodies in the Northern Sami language of Norway. Albmi means sky in the Northern Sami language of Norway.
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  • ‘Maru’ (마루) is a Korean word reminiscent of the sky. * NEWC Republic of Korea: Korean words reminiscent of the sky, sea, and environment.
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  • ...'tar''<sub>2</sub> mul.<meš> = <sup>d</sup>''Ištar kakkabī'') "Star of the sky reigning = Goddess of the stars" [CT 25, 31:15; Litke 1998, 161:185 + notes
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  • ...name is thought to refer to this star's following the Pleiades across the sky, or to the Hyades (or α Tau) coming after the Pleiades as a lunar mansion. ...Star Names and Their Derivations (2nd rev. ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Sky Pub.
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  • ...nclosing the Pasture, and all the dim stellar sheep in that portion of the sky (al-ghanam or al-aghnam for the sheep), seem to form a complete group of in ...Star Names and Their Derivations (2nd rev. ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Sky Pub.
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  • ...za'. Reference was made to al-jauza's being in the "middle" (wasat) of the sky (perhaps meaning the celestial equator). The reference was intended to appl ...Star Names and Their Derivations (2nd rev. ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Sky Pub.
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  • ...nomena such as comets, meteors, even on occasion luminous phenomena in the sky '''''(give example??)'''''. It is the equivalent of Sumerian MUL, the dete
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  • ...ration", used by Ptolemy in the Tetrabiblos in describing several nebulous sky objects (in the present case, probably the open cluster M7). Ptolemy's term ...Star Names and Their Derivations (2nd rev. ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Sky Pub.
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  • ...e December when the weather is hot and these stars are high in the evening sky, signalling the start of the monsoon.
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  • |Dekker, Elly, "Early Explorations of the Southern Celestial Sky", ''Annals of Science'', '''44''' (1987), 439-470 [[:File:dekker1987.pdf|(p |Dekker, Elly, "On the Dispersal of Knowledge of the Southern Celestial Sky", ''Der Globusfreund: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift für Globen- und Instru
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  • ...sup>mul</sup>NUN<sup>ki</sup>]] in which "mul" designates an object in the sky and "ki" indicates placenames. It is also called "Asterism of Eridu", the a ...rnus, Delphinus, Pisces, and Piscis Australis. It is the same space in the sky that Aratis designated as the Water; perhaps another proof of the Euphratea
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  • Lalande chose this previously anonymous area of sky because it was here that the [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Umxbb68tm ...med the figure the Vineyard Keeper on his chart of the northern hemisphere sky published in 1807 in A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mec
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  • ..."crossed over" the Milky Way (where the two stars now lie in the southern sky). Meanwhile suhail's second sister, al-ghumaisa, was left alone north of th ...Star Names and Their Derivations (2nd rev. ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Sky Pub.
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  • ...public of Korea, it follows the name theme Korean words reminiscent of the sky, sea, and environment.
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  • [[File:Camelopardalis IAU.svg|alt=star chart|thumb|Cam star chart (IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine, Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)]]
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  • ...raphies, this triangle was considered a sign of the divinity of the starry sky. The letter Delta was considered a divine inscription "written in the stars ...rest neighbours of the solar system. Therefore, it is the only star in the sky where we can directly see the propoer motion within the recent ~2000 years:
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  • ...Bangladesh, it follows the name theme Terms associated with the dark night sky, space, and sleep in the Bengali language.
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