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The TOCAMM Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M. Del Bo ,
M.G. Lattanzi ,
G. Massone ,
F. Porcu ,
F. Salvati ,
G.L. Deiana ,
A. Poma  and
S. Uras
M. Del Bo
Affiliation:
Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Strada Osservatorio, 20 10025, Pino Torinese, Italy
M.G. Lattanzi
Affiliation:
Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Strada Osservatorio, 20 10025, Pino Torinese, Italy
G. Massone
Affiliation:
Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Strada Osservatorio, 20 10025, Pino Torinese, Italy
F. Porcu
Affiliation:
Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Strada Osservatorio, 20 10025, Pino Torinese, Italy
F. Salvati
Affiliation:
Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Strada Osservatorio, 20 10025, Pino Torinese, Italy
G.L. Deiana
Affiliation:
Stazione Astronomica, 09012 Capoterra (Cagliari), Italy
A. Poma
Affiliation:
Stazione Astronomica, 09012 Capoterra (Cagliari), Italy
S. Uras
Affiliation:
CNR, Gruppo Nazionale di Astronomia, UdR Cagliari, 09012 Capoterra, Italy

Abstract

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The TOCAMM (TOrino CAgliari Measuring Machine) project undertaken jointly between Torino and Cagliari Astronomical Observatories aimed to convert the old measuring machine ASCORECORD into an automatic and impersonal one. This program is intended to contribute to the link of the HIPPARCOS Catalogue to the ICRS through the determination of precise position of optical counterparts of 80 extragalactic radiosources taken from the IERS list and to investigate the astrometric accuracy of the Guide Star Catalog (version 1 and 2). The calibration test phase, carried out first at the Astronomical Observatory of Torino and after at Cagliari Observatory, where the machine has been now installed, indicate that the available positional accuracy is about 0.5 microns in both x and y coordinates.

Type
Part 3. Observational Techniques for Polar Motion
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 178: Polar Motion: Historical and Scientific Problems , 2000 , pp. 317 - 320
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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