Step in accordance with the day song star officer works such as familiar with all the stars the name, location, division, and have basic knowledge of astrology.Further problem is to have a set with the measured star tools.

Now we can't prepare a set of astronomical instruments like the ancients, but we can know what the ancients used instrument observation astrology for horoscopes.Here we introduction the ancients relevant instruments, basic on the basis of the chinese-speaking draft history of qing · day.

Han people used observation astrology used instruments called spiral now jade scale, the specific shape has been unknown.

Han dynasty created armillary sphere, tang, Song Shijie imitate it.To the beginning of yuan dynasty abridged armilla, scaphe, etc.

In the Ming dynasty in Beijing has the door on the urban observatory, imitation produce armillary sphere, abridged armilla, yuan dynasty, object, plus daily sundial clepsydra, etc.

Still at the beginning of the qing dynasty, the emperor kangxi eight years, adopt verbiest (Belgian, missionaries) advice, transformed into 6 kinds of instruments, called the ecliptic theodolite, equatorial theodolite, the horizon through the meter, the altitude meter, the age limit gauge, object.Kangxi fifty-two years, horizon by the instrument weft detector also for an instrument: altazimuth.Qianlong nine years, and made Los Angeles HengFu Calvin.The device is placed on the Beijing observatory, it is still in, all kinds of instruments are imitations, for people to watch, in order to understand Chinese ancient astronomical instruments of the shape.