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Atlas and star
According to the A. Cresques ' Catalan Atlas of 1375, the flag of Karamanoğlu consisted of a blue six-edged star.
Atlas is a triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster ( M45 ).
It is the fourth brightest star in the Pleiades open star cluster ( M45 ), after Alcyone, Atlas and Electra, in that order.
She is one of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione in Greek mythology — stars which are also included in the Pleaides star cluster ( see map ).
Meteors also travel along great circles, and the Gnomonic Atlas Brno 2000. 0 is the IMO recommended set of star charts for visual meteor observations.
In 2005, At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Diego, California, Schaefer reported on a potential link between the long lost star catalog of Hipparchus and a sculpture called The Farnese Atlas, created in the 2nd century, and thus a potential source for antique astronomy.
* The Farnese Atlas is the oldest extant depiction of Atlas from Greek mythology, and the oldest view of the Western constellations, possibly based upon the star catalog of Hipparchus
When the Atlas Coelestis-the largest star map at the time was published-it contained 26 maps of the major constellations visible from Greenwich and two planispheres designed by Sharp.
It has recently been claimed that a celestial globe based on Hipparchus's star catalog sits atop the broad shoulders of a large 2nd-century Roman statue known as the Farnese Atlas.
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Since the star is located close to Atlas, it's difficult for stargazers to distinguish with the naked eye, even though it's a hot type B star 190 times more luminous than the Sun.
With an apparent magnitude of + 5. 05 in V, the star is rather difficult to make out with the naked eye, especially since its close neighbour Atlas is 3. 7 times brighter and located less than 5 arcminutes away .< ref name =" NOTEATLAS " group =" note "> The brightness ratio of Atlas versus Pleione is derived from the formula for apparent magnitude and is based on their respective visual magnitudes: Atlas () at 3. 62 and Pleione () at 5. 05.

Atlas and ),
* Atlas ( mythology ), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens ; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a celestial sphere on his back or shoulders ( also known as Atlas Telamon or " enduring Atlas ")
* Atlas ( moon ), a moon of Saturn
* Atlas ( crater ), a prominent impact crater on the Moon
* Atlas ( anatomy ), the topmost cervical vertebra of the spine
* Atlas Bear ( Ursus arctos crowtheri ), an extinct subspecies of the Brown Bear
* Atlas beetle ( Chalcosoma atlas ), a rhinoceros beetle species
* Atlas Flycatcher ( Ficedula speculigera ), a songbird species sometimes included in the Eurasian Pied Flycatcher
* Atlas Moth ( Attacus atlas ), a large saturniid moth species
* Atlas Turtle ( Colossochelys atlas ), a prehistoric giant tortoise, formerly in the genus Testudo
* Atlas ( topology ), a collection of local coordinate charts in mathematics
* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester
** Titan ( computer ), also known as the Atlas 2, its successor
* The Atlas ( video game ), a Japan-exclusive strategy video game
* Atlas ( album ), an album by Mexican electro-pop band Kinky
* Atlas ( band ), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand
* Atlas ( film ), a 1961 movie by Roger Corman
* Atlas Games ( company ), a publisher of role-playing and card games
* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann
* Atlas ( magazine ), Turkish monthly magazine on geography, environment, history and culture
* Atlas Comics ( 1950s ), the company that evolved into Marvel Comics
* Atlas ( comics series ), a comic book series by Dylan Horrocks
* Atlas ( DC Comics ), a fictional character published by DC Comics

Atlas and system
Auerbach discusses his work at Burroughs 1949 – 1957 managing development for the SAGE project, BEAM I computer, the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System, a magnetic core encryption communications system, and Atlas missile.
In the generic plan of a medieval manor from Shepherd's Historical Atlas, the strips of individually-worked land in the open field system are immediately apparent.
Risus ( Latin for “ laughter ”) is a comedy game ( often described by its creator as a " joke game ") and uses a cliché ( character class ) system inspired by the broad " career scale " skills in Greg Gorden's DC Heroes RPG ( Mayfair Games ), and later influenced by Atlas Games ' Over the Edge.
What NASA's website describes as " improper operation of the Atlas airborne beacon equipment " caused the booster to lose contact with one of the guidance systems on the ground, setting the stage for an apparent software-related guidance system failure.
** July 27: A guidance system malfunction in the Atlas booster.
Initial use of the static test stand occurred in the 50's for full-up system testing of Convair's Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.
In July 1959, construction began on the first Series E Atlas ICBM coffin-type launcher ( Atlas operational system test facility # 1 ).
Construction began on the first SM-65F Atlas ICBM " silo-lift " launcher ( Atlas operational system test facility # 2 ) in November.
The B5000 was the first commercial system to support virtual memory after the Atlas.
The fact that Titan I, like Atlas, burned RP-1 and LOX meant that the oxidizer had to be loaded onto the missile just before launch from the underground storage tank, and the missile raised above ground on the enormous elevator system, exposing the missile for some time before launch.
The inertial guidance system originally intended for the missile was instead eventually deployed in the Atlas E missile.
Illustration of the system from the National Atlas
The 556 SMS's life was relatively short lived since the Atlas was a liquid fuel system that was expensive and difficult to maintain.
In the early 1950s the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory ( later to become the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc .) was chosen by the Air Force Western Development Division to provide a self-contained guidance system backup to Convair in San Diego for the new Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile.
The Atlas guidance system was to be a combination of an on-board autonomous system, and a ground-based tracking and command system.
In 1973 Henry Small published his classic work on Co-Citation analysis which became a self-organizing classification system that led to document clustering experiments and eventually an " Atlas of Science " later called " Research Reviews ".
Its various functions included running the Atlas computer's virtual memory ( Atlas Supervisor paper, section 3, Store Organisation ) and is ‘ considered by many to be the first recognisable modern operating system ’.
The revised Yerkes Atlas system ( Johnson & Morgan 1953 ) listed 11 G-type dwarf spectral standard stars ; however, not all of these have survived to this day as standards.
After this, two new prototype hulls and three turrets were ordered, one ( PT-20 ) mounting the original L7A3 105 mm gun and a Hughes fire control system, a second ( PT-19 ) with the same fire control system but able to " swap out " the gun for the 120 mm Rheinmetall design ( it was indeed so changed by the Americans ), and one more ( PT-21 ) mounting the Hughes-Krupp Atlas Elektronik EMES 13 fire control system, with the 120 mm gun.

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