New methods of forming and aligning the instrumental frames of absolute transit circle catalogs

Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 595-603

  Holdenried, E R ^a   Rafferty, T J ^a  

^a US NAVAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrometry; Instrumentation: miscellaneous; Methods: data analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746971351     PISSN: 03650138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/aas:1997246     Document Type: Article

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