The pit that was dug for the huge sextant used by the astronomer Ulug Beg in his observatory at Samarkand in modern day Uzbekistan.

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Location: Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
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Keywords: astronomer, astronomy, beg, bek, observatory, pit, samarkand, sextant, ulug, uzbekistan