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The Tautenburg Schmidt Telescope and Galactic Proper Motion Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

E. Schilbach
Affiliation:
Universität Potsdam/Sternwarte Babelsberg, An der Stemwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
R.-D. Scholz
Affiliation:
Universität Potsdam/Sternwarte Babelsberg, An der Stemwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
S. Hirte
Affiliation:
Universität Potsdam/Sternwarte Babelsberg, An der Stemwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany

Abstract

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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.

Type
IX. Galactic Structure and Stellar Surveys
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1995

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