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How to use Flamsteed in a sentence

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In 1720 he succeeded Flamsteed as Astronomer Royal, a position he was to hold for 21 years despite being 64 years old when appointed.
In the mid-to-end 17th century, Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, produced a northern hemisphere catalogue accurate to about 10 arcsec.
Legend has it that John Flamsteed, the astronomical observator, complained to Charles II that the birds were interfering with his observations.
Flamsteed supported the feasibility of the method but lamented the lack of detailed knowledge of the stellar positions and the moon's movement.
The English astronomer John Flamsteed catalogued over 3000 stars.
At the same time, Sir Jonas Moore had suggested to King Charles the establishment of an observatory and proposed Flamsteed as the first Astronomer Royal.
Examples from Classical Literature
This pillar is the support of Airy's altazimuth, and very nearly marks the place where Flamsteed set up his original sextant.
It is very common in our modern catalogues to give both the bayer letter and the Flamsteed number in the case of bayer stars.
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