posted 05-20-2016 06:54 PM               

To clarify, this is what the Soyuz Celestial Navigation Globe looks like:

I have so far four usable photographs: the official museum photo and two that were taken and posted years ago by a visitors and posted online, and one from the manufacturer in Kazan, Russia. The consultants for the mapping were from the Kazan Astronomical Observatory named for Englehardt.

The same unique asterisms and star selections are used on the PVKO-3 device being sold on ebay, by maxsuta.

It can ostensibly be found in the Sotheby's 1993 Russian Space History catalog, as it is part of the Perot collection.

I am detailing the 500 plus stars on its surface and unique asterisms, so a picture taken at 10 to 20 degrees difference than what is posted provides plenty of new data.

Thus far, I have detailed about 65% of the celestial sphere. I am missing many of the constellations of the Southern Hemisphere and Sagittarius. Generally, the visual magnitudes are limited to 4, but sometimes they are as low as 4.5 where needed to point to the next star or mark an otherwise faint constellation.

The curators at NASM I have corresponded with are too busy and facing a renovation, so they are unable to help further.

posted 11-22-2018 02:06 PM               

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Originally posted by kyra:
The same unique asterisms and star selections are used on the PVKO-3 device...

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