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Steven Curtis Chapman

American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter Steven Curtis Chapman has released sixteen studio albums and eighty-two singles, in addition to three holiday albums, three compilation albums, and three video releases. He has sold over eleven million albums, and ten of his albums have been certified gold or platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Chapman's first album, First Hand (1987), was released on Sparrow Records; although the album did not chart, three of its singles reached the top ten on the CCM Update Christian radio charts. Real Life Conversations (1988) became his first album to appear on the Billboard Christian Albums chart, and More to This Life (1989) was his first top-ten album on the Christian Albums chart, also yielding four number-one singles on the CCM Update Adult Contemporary chart. Chapman would release five more studio albums in the 1990s, all of which reached the number-one position on the Christian Albums chart. Chapman’s next two albums, Declaration (2001) and All About Love (2003), were his highest-charting albums on the Billboard 200, peaking at numbers 14 and 12, respectively. (Full list...)

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Ophiuchus

Ophiuchus is a constellation commonly represented in the form of a man grasping a large snake, and was formerly referred to as Serpentarius. It is a large constellation straddling the celestial equator and near the centre of the Milky Way as viewed from Earth, being surrounded by Aquila, Serpens, Scorpius, Sagittarius and Hercules. To the north of the serpent's tail is the now-obsolete constellation Taurus Poniatovii, while to its south Scutum. Ophiuchus's brightest star, Alpha Ophiuchi, represented here by the right eye of the snake charmer, was traditionally known as Rasalhague, from the Arabic meaning 'head of the serpent charmer'.

This illustration is plate 12 of Urania's Mirror, a set of 32 astronomical star chart cards illustrated by Sidney Hall and first published in 1824, featuring artistic depictions of Ophiuchus, as well as Taurus Poniatovii, Scutum (here referred to as "Scutum Sobiesky") and Serpens.

Illustration credit: Sidney Hall; restored by Adam Cuerden

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