Key events in the history of astronomy:

• Fri, 13 Nov: The Almagest, Ptolemy‘s astronomy text book (2nd cent.)
• Fri, 27 Nov: Introduction to traditional Chinese astronomy
• Fri, 11 Dec: Carolingian Renaissance of astronomy (AD 760-845)
• Fri, 8 Jan: What happened in AD 775? Strong radiocarbon variation –
  solar flare, supernova, gamma-ray burst ... ?
• Fri, 22 Jan: The Galactic supernovae in AD 1006 and 1054
• Fri, 5 Feb: A long way to the heliocentric world view (Aristarchos, Macrobius,
  Abu Mashar, Copernicus, Brahe, Marius, Galileo, Kepler, Newton)