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The Astrographic Catalogue as a Source of Old Epoch Places

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Harley Wood
Harley Wood*
Affiliation:
Sydney Observatory

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At the General Assembly of the I. A. U. in Prague in 1967 I became involved in a discussion on the merit of using stars with positions taken from the Astrographic Catalogue as reference stars in finding positions of faint members of the solar system. The answer was that little choice exists if the positions are being found from photographs of small field taken with large telescopes.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 7: Proper Motions , August 1965 , pp. 67 - 73
Copyright
Copyright © University of Minnesota 1970

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