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Pulkovo Observatory's Status in 19th Century Positional Astronomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Kevin Krisciunas
Kevin Krisciunas*
Affiliation:
Joint Astronomy Centre 665 Komohana Street Hilo, Hawaii 96720 USA

Abstract

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The most significant basis of the reputation of a scientific organization is the accuracy and influence of its work. From a comparison of values of certain astronomical constants and stellar parallaxes obtained at Pulkovo and elsewhere, the extremely high weight given to the Pulkovo values (e.g. by Newcomb) is further justified in retrospect given the small deviations between Pulkovo values and the “modern” values accepted a century later.

Type
Part 1: The legacy of Pulkovo for inertial systems and reference frames
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 141: Inertial Coordinate System on the Sky , 1990 , pp. 15 - 24
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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