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Pulkovo Observatory's Status in 19th Century Positional Astronomy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2016
Abstract
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
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1990