star chart

noun

Astronomy. a chart or map showing the relative apparent positions of the stars, as seen from the earth, in a particular area of the sky.

First recorded in 1865–70

Marston himself had loomed large in the star-chart of painting only a dozen years ago, and was now the greatest of luminaries.

He gestured expressively at the star chart papered over one wall of his office.

Phil Morgan thought a moment, and faced toward the wall with the inlaid star chart of the sky, thinking of sun-bathed Georgia.

He sent his results to the Berlin Observatory, where a star chart such as was wanted was actually just being made.

It was not an ordinary star-chart: it was three-dimensional, ultra-stereoscopic.

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