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The Carte Du Ciel - The Australian Connection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Graeme L. White
Graeme L. White*
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO, PO Box 76, Epping NSW 2121, Australia

Abstract

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This paper reviews the Australian involvement in the “Carte du Ciel”. Four Australian observatories - Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth - undertook three zones of the Carte du Ciel project. This was about 18% of the total program and the Australian work took over 80 years to complete.

Type
Part I: Historical Research
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 133: Mapping the Sky: Past Heritage and Future Directions , 1988 , pp. 45 - 51
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1988 

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