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The COSMOS Plate Measuring Machine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

N. M. Pratt*
Affiliation:
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, U.K.

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The new 48-in. Schmidt telescope of the U.K. Science Research Council is being commissioned at Siding Spring in Australia. Its potential both for extra-galactic and galactic research is enormous but this potential can only be fully exploited with an automatic measuring machine.

Type
Session G: Astrometric Techniques
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974