The Carte du Ciel (French pronunciation: [kaʁt dy sjɛl]; literally, 'Map of the Sky') and the Astrographic Catalogue (or Astrographic Chart) were two...

became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887. Born in Madrid, Spain, Mouchez embarked on a career...

instruments for observatories, and were involved in the origin of the Carte du Ciel project. Between the two of them, they discovered a total of 14 asteroids...

lunar dynamics and, in collaboration with Maurice Loewy, the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project. Puiseux created a photographic atlas of the Moon based on 6000...

greatly expanded the observatory and enthusiastically supported the Carte du Ciel project. He specialized in celestial mechanics, in particular the motions...

equipment. He produced instruments for many participants of the 1887 Carte du Ciel project. Gautier came from a modest Parisian family and was forced to...

the 6th Nizam of Kingdom of Hyderabad in 1901. It participated in the Carte du Ciel making 463,542 observations. It boasted of an 8" Cooke Astrograph and...

institution named Vatican Observatory participated in creating the Carte du Ciel, but they have progressively become useless or limited for research...

of the Great Comet of 1882, and one of the early proponents of the Carte du Ciel project. The invention of dry plate photography by Richard Leach Maddox...

to make surveys of the night sky, and one of the famous projects was Carte du Ciel. Discoveries using an astrograph include then-planet Pluto. Rather than...