All Skies Encyclopaedia:About

This encyclopaedia is meant to become a global knowledgebase for names in the sky. It stores philological, historical, and image information.

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  International Astronomical Union
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  Working Group Star Names
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  Austrian Academy of Science
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  Stiftung FNJE
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  University of Science and Technology of China Hefei

It began with a project on Mesopotamian names of stars and constellations and some adaptations to produce a similar dictionary for Chinese terms:

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  Austrian Academy of Science
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  Michael Stifel Center Jena
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  FSU Jena
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  HU Jerusalem
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  USTC Hefei

Predecessors

This project is a standalone research project that was set up in the spirit of the WGSN thanks to generous funding of the project "Planetarium Babylonicum" by the Austrian Academy of Science.

However, of course, there had been earlier (less successful) attempts to create such a global repository. In particular, the project "Ancient Skies" by two amateur astronomers, Doris Vickers and Rüdiger Schultz, in Vienna aimed at producing such a collection. We particularly acknowledge it, as D. Vickers is one of our authors.

a predessor project of this encyclopaedia