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On Progress and Methods of Reduction of the Melbourne Observations of Fundamental Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

K. N. Tavastsherna
K. N. Tavastsherna*
Affiliation:
Pulkovo Observatory, U.S.S.R.

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The astronomers C. Merfield, J. Moroney, G. Wootthouse, J. Feely and W. Holmes of the Melbourne Observatory made a large series of observations of fundamental stars with the 8″ meridian circle (Troughton and Simms) during 1928–1941. After closing the Observatory all the materials concerned with this large work (about 20000 observations in δ and 30000 observations in α) were forwarded to the Mount Stromlo and then the Pulkovo Observatories for the final reduction and publication (Tavastsherna, 1963).

Type
Session B: Current and Future Projects for Southern Hemisphere Reference Systems
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 61: New Problems in Astrometry , 1974 , pp. 85
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974 

References

Tavastsherna, K. N.: 1963, Trudy 15th Astrometr. Konf. , p. 156.Google Scholar
Tavastsherna, K. N. and Shakht, N. A.: 1968, Catalogues of Stellar Positions Compiled at Pulkovo Observatory on the Basis of Observations made at Melbourne Observatory from 1928 to 1941 , Pulkovo, Leningrad.Google Scholar