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1. Stellar Catalogues

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   Historical Precursors and Early Efforts
   The earliest systematic attempts to list celestial objects predate the telescope and focused primarily on charting navigational reference points. The Babylonian Mul.Apin tablets (circa 1000 BCE) provided early systematic lists, though these were primarily concerned with the risings and settings of asterisms rather than precise stellar magnitudes.
   The most influential pre-telescopic compilation was the *Al…