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The greatest observational astronomer of the sixteenth century was Tycho Brahe. The instruments he built to measure the position of the stars were the most accurate instruments on Earth. Brahe is also remembered for supplying the data used by Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) to derive the Laws of Planetary Motion.
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The Alfonsine tables containing data for computing the position of the Sun, planets and the moon. They were prepared by groups of astronomers and scholars around 1,252–1,270. They are named after Alfonso X of Castille who ordered their creation.
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Anders Vedel became Demark’s first great historian.
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The supernova SN 1572 is known today as Tycho’s Supernova or Tycho’s Nova. It can be found at 0 h 25.3 min right ascension and +64° 09′ declination in the constellation of Cassiopeia.
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Cavin, J.D. (2012). The Tycho Brahe Catalog (1598). In: The Amateur Astronomer's Guide to the Deep-Sky Catalogs. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0656-3_4
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