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On the Astronomical Orientation of Apamea and Gerasa
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016The ruins of several ancient towns of the East are showing impressing long colonnaded streets. These streets, named with the Roman terms of "decumani" and "cardines", crossing each other at right angles, are cutting the towns in four main parts. Of such towns with colonnaded streets, here we are discussing Apamea and Gerasa, founded under the rule of ...
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The astronomical orientation of the historical Grand mosques in Anatolia (Turkey)
Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 2018This is a very informative study about the various methods of determining the \textit{Qibla} orientation of a mosque in various times during the past almost 1400 years, culminating with a list of the deviations from the exact \textit{Qibla} in the actual \textit{Qibla} orientations of the Grand mosques orientations in present-day Turkey.
Yilmaz, Mustafa, Tiryakioglu, Ibrahim
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Preserving Monuments’ Astronomical Orientation by Using Different Databases
2012As many studies worldwide [25], [6], [9], [17] have proven, there is a significant reason on the study of a monument. This is the actual orientation that the founders gave to the monument during its foundation. The orientation of a monument, especially a religious one, follows some strict rules according to each religion, tradition and belief.
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Spatial triangulation in a local, astronomical oriented cartesian coordinate system
Bulletin géodésique, 1969For the determination of spatial coordinates of the points of a net-work a local Cartesian coordinate system is introduced, whoze z-axis coincides with the true vertical of an arbitrarily selected central point in the net-work, and whose x-axis is oriented to astronomical north. The observed horizontal directions and vertical angles, which refer to the
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Astronomical Orientations of the Great Enclosure of Musawwarat Es Sufra
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017Here we propose the use of Stellarium and Photographer’s Ephemeris software to test a possible astronomical orientation of the Great Enclosure of Musawwarat es Sufra, in the heartland of the Kingdom of Kush. Using the Photographer’s Ephemeris, we can see that the central part of the enclosure is aligned perfectly along the southern direction of the ...
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Astronomical Orientations at Teotihuacán, A Case Study in Astro-Archaeology
American Antiquity, 1967AbstractThe streets of this Classic period city were laid out in a grid pattern. The axes of this grid were almost, but not exactly, perpendicular. There were a number of celestial bodies that in the period from A.D. 150 to A.D. 750 rose or set so as to markthe orientations of the streets.
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The King's Knot of Stirling Castle and Its Astronomical Orientation
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016The Stirling Castle is one of the most important castles of Scotland. It is atop of a hill, in a strong defensive position for controlling the River Forth. Below the west side of the castle's hill, there is the King's Knot, a 16th-century formal garden.
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Parallel massive data oriented astronomical cross-match
Journal of Computer Applications, 2010Qing ZHAO +4 more
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Astronomic Positioning and Orientation Method for Inhomogeneous Stellar Distributions
Journal of Surveying Engineering, 2023Zihao Liu +6 more
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Astronomical Orientation of Neolithic Circular Ditch Systems (Kreisgrabenanlagen)
2009In the last decades, aerial photography has revealed several dozens of a certain class of Neolithic circular ditch systems, called Kreisgrabenanlagen (KGA), spread over a wide area of central Europe. Since the 1990s, view directions from the KGA centers through the doors have frequently been interpreted in connection with sunset or sunrise positions at
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