In astronomy, the fixed stars (Latin: stellae fixae) are the luminary points, mainly stars, that appear not to move relative to one another against the...

The Book of Fixed Stars (Arabic: كتاب صور الكواكب kitāb suwar al-kawākib, literally The Book of the Shapes of Stars) is an astronomical text written by...

The Behenian fixed stars are a selection of fifteen stars considered especially useful for magical applications in the medieval astrology of Europe and...

the Islamic development of the Celestial Globe. His book, The Book of Fixed Stars, designed for accuracy for the year 964, was a "description of the constellations...

stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed points of light. The most prominent stars have...

an Iranian astronomer. His work Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib ("The Book of Fixed Stars"), written in 964, included both textual descriptions and illustrations...

consisting of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Fixed Stars, the Primum Mobile and finally, the Empyrean. It was written in the early...

scale that is based on Earth's rate of rotation measured relative to the fixed stars". Viewed from the same location, a star seen at one position in the sky...

one approximated by the fixed stars. However, this is not required for the definition, and it is now known that those stars are in fact moving. According...

theory rather than observation. He established the idea of a sphere of fixed stars that rotated about Earth. This was accepted by most of those who came...

astrological nomenclature, the stars were divided into fixed stars, Latin stellæ fixæ, which in astrology means the stars and other galactic or intergalactic...

fixed stars. Hence, for Earth, it is also the time taken for the Sun to return to the same position relative to Earth with respect to the fixed stars...

Fixed is an upcoming American adult animated black comedy film produced by New Line Cinema and Sony Pictures Animation, and distributed by Warner Bros...

of the fixed sphere of stars as discovered by Hipparchus. One school believed that at 1 degree shift per 100 years, the sphere of fixed stars would return...

the naked eye and moves across the sky and its backdrop of fixed stars (the common stars which seem still in contrast to the planets). Visible to humans...

the Moon; observation of the sky from altitude; observation of certain fixed stars from different locations; observing the Sun; surface navigation; grid...

according to Aristotle). Aristotle deemed the Sun, Moon, planets and the fixed stars to be perfectly concentric spheres in a superlunary region above the...

greater than the "universe" just mentioned. His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the sun remain unmoved, that the earth revolves about the sun on...

and with observed celestial bodies such as the classical planets and fixed stars. Each of the seven heavens corresponds to one of the seven classical...

positions of these "stars" relative to Jupiter were changing in a way that would have been inexplicable if they had really been fixed stars. On 10 January...

days, he noticed four stars close to Jupiter whose positions were changing in a way that would be impossible if they were fixed stars. After much observation...

two similar components: fixed stars, which remained motionless in relation to each other, and moving objects/"wandering stars" (Ancient Greek: ἀστέρες...

Northern Hemisphere (March equinox), Babylonian astronomers fixed the zodiac in relation to stars, placing the beginning of Cancer at the "Rear Twin Star"...

greater than the 'universe' just mentioned. His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the Sun remain unmoved, that the Earth revolves about the Sun on...

(the sky is so bright that some) fixed stars become invisible (because of the meteor shower); at midnight, stars fell like rain." In the Australian...

and others. In these celestial models, the apparent motions of the fixed stars and planets are accounted for by treating them as embedded in rotating...

they also appear to revolve around Earth about once per day. The stars appeared to be fixed on a celestial sphere rotating once each day about an axis through...

Earth in size and distance has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars" The Earth is immobile The first book of the Almagest included a chapter...

because the equinoxes moved westward along the ecliptic relative to the fixed stars, opposite to the yearly motion of the Sun along the ecliptic. Historically...

eccentricity and of the movement of the solar apogee in relation to the fixed stars, which in 1515–1519 prompted his first revisions of certain assumptions...