I/362 Hipparchus's Lost Star Catalogue (1/2 reconstructed) (Hoffmann, 2017) ================================================================================ Hipparchs Himmelsglobus. Ein Bindeglied in der babylonisch-griechischen Astrometrie? Hoffmann S.M. =2024yCat.1362....0H =2017hihi.book.....H ================================================================================ ADC_Keywords: Historical catalog ; Positional data Keywords: stars - history and philosophy - Hipparchus Abstract: Susanne M. Hoffmann reconstructed the not preserved celestial globe (and star catalogue) of ancient Hipparchus of Nicaea digitally. She investigated the data (celestial coordinates) on this globe and traced their sources. By means of error analysis, visualizing, mapping, and correlation plots she examined the potential origin of the Hipparchian star coordinates (or some of them) in observations of earlier Greek or Babylonian data. As preserved by Ptolemy (Almagest) and Pliny the Elder, Hipparchus is famous for his exact observations but he does, of course, also rely on older data - e.g. especially elaborated by Ptolemy's discussion of precession. Description: Reconstruction of the lost star catalogue of Hipparchus of Nicaea (2nd century BCE). This is the data underlaying the visualisations in the book (2017hihi.book.....H). Data given in three formats. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file hipplo.dat 726 783 Hipparchus's Lost Star Catalogue (hippCat_allRaw_bb.csv) (25/08/2026 vercion) hipplpr.dat 476 430 Hipparchus's Lost Star Catalogue (hippCat_byHIP.csv) (25/08/2026 vercion) hippcat2.dat 221 82 Hipparchus's Lost Star Catalogue (HippCat2_constDef_smh2024_) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-18683-8 : Hipparchs Himmelsglobus Byte-by-byte Description of file: hipplo.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 3 I3 --- IDinHipp [1/878] My identifier (number) 5- 25 A21 --- Const Constellation name 27-211 A185 --- starName Star name 213-272 A60 --- Manitius Manitius star identifier 274-280 A7 --- HR HR number or NGC 869 or NGC 884 282-288 A7 --- HIP HIP number or NGC 869 or NGC 884 290-292 A3 --- HippAdd1 Hipparchus's style: any additional data point he gives in text, e.g. simultaneously rising/setting zodiac sign 294-297 F4.1 --- HippAdd2 ? Simultaneously rising/setting ecliptic degree within the sign 299-303 F5.1 --- HippAdd3 ? Combined ecliptic degree of simultaneous rising/setting 305-610 A306 --- simCulmSign Hipparchus's style: with risings, settings and transits, he always gives the simultaneously culminating zodiac sign (if this column contains a number, it is a right ascension hour given in his text) 612-618 A7 --- simCulmDeg The degree within the zodiac sign (if he gives a RA hour, this is a RA min) 620-635 A16 --- culmNum Zodiac sign and degree combined to ecliptic longitude 637-653 A17 deg RAhipp Right ascension given by Hipparchus (127 BCE) or "no RA" 655-671 A17 deg DEhipp Declination given by Hipparchus (127 BCE) or "no DEC" 673-726 A54 --- Source Reference, where in Hipparchus's text -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: hipplpr.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 3 I3 --- Id [1/430] Identifier 5- 11 A7 --- HIP HIP number or NGC 869 or NGC 884 13 I1 --- Nmentions [1/7] Number of mentions 15-388 A374 --- StarNames Star names 390-442 A53 --- Const Constellation name 444-476 A33 --- IDinHipp IDinHipp numbers, separated by coma -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: hippcat2.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 16 A16 --- Const Constellation that rises/ sets 18- 19 I2 --- ID1 [1/82] identifier of first star 21- 83 A63 --- Name1 Name/designator of first star 85-102 A18 --- Ident1 Identification of first star 104-106 I3 --- ID2 [83/164] identifier of last star 108-171 A64 --- Name2 Name/designator of last star 173-191 A19 --- Ident2 Identification of last star 193-197 F5.1 min Dur [12/424] Duration of process given by Hipparchus 199-203 F5.1 deg lambdaC1 Ecliptic longitude that culminates simultaneously 205-209 F5.1 deg lambdaC2 Ecliptic longitude that culminates simultaneously 211-215 F5.1 deg lambdaH1 Ecliptic longitude that rises/sets simultaneously 217-221 F5.1 deg lambdaH2 Ecliptic longitude that rises/sets simultaneously -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgements: Susanne M. Hoffmann, susanne.m.hoffmann(at)topoi.org History: * 14-Nov-2024: on-line version * 25-Aug-2026: updated hipplo.dat and hipplpr.dat tables ================================================================================ (End) Patricia Vannier [CDS] 11-Nov-2024