Rudolphine Tables
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The
Rudolphine Tables (
Latin:
Tabulae Rudolphinae) consist of a
star catalog and planetary tables published by
Johannes Kepler in
1627. They contain positions for 1,005 stars with directions and tables for locating the
planets of the
solar system.
The tables, based mainly on observations by
Tycho Brahe, the renowned
Danish astronomer, are very accurate, and were the first to include corrective factors for
atmospheric refraction.
*The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 1988, Volume 10, pg. 232
