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The Legacy of the Struves for the Establishment of an Inertial Coordinate System on the Sky

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Alan H. Batten
Alan H. Batten*
Affiliation:
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics Victoria, B.C. Canada

Abstract

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Contributions made by Vassily Yakovlevich Struve and his son Otto Vassilyevich to the eventual establishment of an inertial frame of reference on the sky are discussed under five heads: (i) the foundation of Pulkovo Observatory, (ii) instrumentation, (iii) Vassily Yakovlevich's determination of the constant of aberration, (iv) Otto Vassilyevich's determination of the coefficient of precession and (v) international cooperation.

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. 7 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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