A fifteenth-century observatory built at Samarkand, in present-day Uzbekistan, by the Timurid ruler and astronomer Ulugh Beg, centered on a huge underground sextant used to measure the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars with remarkable accuracy for the era. Its resulting star catalog, the Zij-i Sultani, remained among the most accurate available for over a century.
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