himmelszelt / sternwartebeta

@himmelszelt/sternenheer

sternenheer: German, "host of stars". The countless stars of the night sky. Poetic, since 1741; Kant in 1755 speaks of "an inconceivably numerous host of stars".

The nine thousand stars you can see without a telescope.

by Daniel Limberger · Last updated 2 October 2026 · Unfamiliar term?Unfamiliar term Like this one: a dotted underline marks a term this site explains. Hover it, or tap it on a touch screen, and its definition opens right where you are reading. The small numbered citations work the same way, with the source they point to.

Contents
  1. Look up
  2. The catalog
  3. Code examples
  4. References

The stars behind everything else. A catalog of the roughly nine thousand stars visible to the naked eye, each with its position, brightness, and color, turned into the observer’s sky by the sidereal time from sternzeit. How many of them show, and how much they twinkle, depends on the atmosphere of dunstkreis in front of them and on the Moon’s light from nachtgestirn.

This chapter is a placeholder: the library does not exist yet.

Look up

A night sky to explore. Not written yet.

The catalog

Where the stars come from, and how bright they are. Not written yet.

Code examples

Not written yet.

References

None yet.