Cultural astronomy

Cultural astronomy is the set of interdisciplinary fields studying the astronomical systems of current or ancient societies and cultures.^[1] Such areas include archaeoastronomy (the study of the use of astronomy and its role in ancient cultures and civilizations), ethnoastronomy (the study of the use of astronomy and its role in contemporary cultures), historical astronomy (analyzing historic astronomical data), history of astronomy (understanding and study and evolution of the discipline of astronomy over the course of human knowledge) and history of astrology (understanding the astrological roots of astronomy and understanding the differences between astrology and astronomy).

References

^ Jarita Holbrook, Johnson O. Urama and R. Thebe Medupe (2008). "African Cultural Astronomy". ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE PROCEEDINGS.

Astronomy

Astronomy by

Manner	Amateur Observational Sidewalk

Celestial subject	Galactic / Extragalactic Solar

Method	Radio Infrared Visible-light (optical) Ultraviolet X-ray Gamma-ray High-energy Neutrino Gravitational radiation

Culture	Australian Aboriginal Babylonian Chechen (Nakh) Chinese Egyptian Greek Hebrew Indian Inuit Medieval Islamic Tibetan

Optical telescopes

Categories

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Cultural astronomy