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Star trails over banksia trees, in Gippsland, Vic., Austl. The south celestial pole, located in the constellation Octans, is at the centre of the trails.
The first printed star maps were created in 1515 by the noted German painter Albrecht Dürer. These maps consisted of a pair of planispheres that were closely patterned on earlier manuscripts preserved in Vienna.12