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The Tautenburg Schmidt Telescope and Galactic Proper Motion Studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
The combination of Tautenburg plates and automatic measuring machines provides a powerful tool to obtain photometry and proper motions of a great number of stars for statistical investigations of our Galaxy. Photographic photometry with an accuracy of about 0.07 mag can be obtained provided two plates of the same colour and a sufficient number of photometric standards are available. With two plate pairs and a 20 years baseline, a proper motion accuracy better than 4 mas/year can be achieved for stars over a wide range of magnitudes. Outside the Galactic plane proper motions are determined with respect to hundreds of background galaxies.
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- IX. Galactic Structure and Stellar Surveys
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 148: The Future Utilisation of Schmidt Telescopes , 1995 , pp. 267 - 270
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1995
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