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Abd-al-Rahman Al-Sufi (also called Azophi or Al-Sufi “The Mystic”) was a Persian astronomer and nobleman living at the court of the Emire Adud ad-Daula in Isfahan (Persia). There is not a lot of information to tell us about the life of Al-Sufi, but we know he worked on the translation of early Greek astronomical texts, in particular the Almagest of Ptolemy.
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Cavin, J.D. (2012). The Abd-Al-Rahman Al-Sufi Catalog. In: The Amateur Astronomer's Guide to the Deep-Sky Catalogs. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0656-3_2
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