S01 E07 - from Ptolemy's Almagest to ESA's Gaia - counting the stars 

Today's Zodiac Constellation is Capricorn. 

Early Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy cataloged the stars and used trigonometry. Today's scientists send a million pixel camera far out in space to L2 to catalog almost 2 thousand million stars and celestial objects 

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LINKS AND others SOURCES 

https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellations-by-month/september-constellations/ 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Almagest 

https://www.britannica.com/science/ecliptic 

https://astrosociety.org/file_download/inline/aa69c0b7-caaa-444c-bb3f-c377c07b8469 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Almagest 

https://www.britannica.com/science/law-of-cosine 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ptolemy 

https://www.google.com/search?q=twelve+tone+rows+history&oq=twelve+tone+rows+history&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i546l2j0i30i546.9000j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 

http://microcosmos.uchicago.edu/ptolemy/features.html 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecliptic 

http://microcosmos.uchicago.edu/ptolemy/astronomy.html 

http://microcosmos.uchicago.edu/ptolemy/features.html 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis 

https://www.ucolick.org/~bolte/AY4_00/week4/star_properties.html 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia 

https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/47354-fact-sheet 

https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/28820-summary 

https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/58274-the-role-of-dpac 

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_reveals_the_past_and_future_of_the_Sun

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