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Five Years of Stellar Position Measurements with the MKIII Optical Interferometer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

C.A. Hummel
C.A. Hummel*
Affiliation:
NRL/USNO Optical Interferometer Project, AD 5, U.S. Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20392-5420

Abstract

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Using the north-south and east-south astrometric baselines of the MKIII optical interferometer on Mt. Wilson (each about 12 meters in length), we measured the positions of eleven EK5 stars with an accuracy of about 10 milliarcseconds (mas) in declination and 20 mas in right ascension.

Type
Astrometry
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 158: Very High Angular Resolution Imaging , 1994 , pp. 448 - 450
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

References

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