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The USNO (Flagstaff Station) CCD Transit Telescope and Star Positions Measured From Extragalactic Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Ronald C. Stone  and
David G. Monet
Ronald C. Stone
Affiliation:
U. S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station P.O. Box 1149 Flagstaff, AZ 86002
David G. Monet
Affiliation:
U. S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station P.O. Box 1149 Flagstaff, AZ 86002

Abstract

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The USNO (Flagstaff Station) is in the process of modernizing its 8-inch transit telescope. The upgraded instrument will use a CCD detector to measure the positions of both bright and faint stars directly with respect to extragalactic sources. Moreover, it will be able to observe large numbers of stars very rapidly, and improvements in accuracy are expected with further upgrades (e.g. CCD circle scanners, an interferometric telescope monitoring system, networks of environmental sensors). Many research opportunities related to coordinate systems exist for this telescope.

Type
Part 4: Realization and comparison of reference frames
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 141: Inertial Coordinate System on the Sky , 1990 , pp. 369 - 370
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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