People of antiquity, just like us, looked at the stars and the moon at night and tried to understand what they are, why they move along the heavenly arch, whether they affect earthly life. To the last question, they, as a rule, answered in the affirmative Astronomy, the oldest of the sciences, at the first stages of its development existed in parallel with astrology. Making the first maps of the starry sky and calculating the movement of the luminaries, researchers of the old days primarily sought to predict the future from them.