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Carte du Ciel

Carte du Ciel (Map of the Sky) was an international project to determine the positions of some millions of stars -- that is to say, of all stars to the 11th or 12th magnitude. It was begun in 1887 by Paris Observatory[?] director E. Mouchez, using photographic plates and vast numbers of unskilled women workers to measure them.

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