依巴谷用渾儀進行測量,至少獲得了850顆恆星的位置,但他使用何種坐標系是有爭議的。托勒密在《天文學大成》中的星表是從依巴谷星表衍生出來的,給出的是黃道坐標。然而,德蘭布雷(Delambre)在他1817年著作的《古代天文學史》(Histoire de l'Astronomie Ancienne)中給出結論,依巴谷知道並使用了赤道座標。但是,奧托·紐格伯爾在他1975年著作的《古代天文數學史》中,對此一結論提出了質疑的挑戰。依巴谷似乎用了黃道坐標系和赤道坐標系統的組合:在他對歐多克索斯的評論中,他提供了恆星的極距離,這相當於赤道系統中的赤緯、赤經,混用着黃經、極經度,而不是天球的緯度。
和他的大部分作品一樣,托勒密採用,或許也擴充了依巴谷的星表。德蘭布雷在1817年對托勒密的作品表示懷疑。《天文學大成》中的星表是否源自依巴谷引起了爭議,但是1976年至2002年的統計和空間分析(由羅伯特·羅素·牛頓(英語:Robert Russell Newton)、鄧尼斯·羅林斯(英語:Dennis Rawlins)和格德·格拉斯霍夫(Gerd Grasshoff)[9]、基思·皮克林(Keith Pickering)[10]、和鄧尼斯·杜克(Dennis Duke)[11]),已經得出結論:《天文學大成》中的星表幾乎完全出自依巴谷的星表。托勒密甚至被天文學家(起自1598年的第谷·布拉赫)指控為詐欺(Syntaxis, book 7, chapter 4)所有他觀察的1,025顆星:幾乎每顆都是使用依巴谷的數據,並依據他的時代2又2/3世紀之後,使用較小的每世紀1°的歲差,將經度增加2°40'。
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