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The Tautenburg Schmidt Telescope and Galactic Proper Motion Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

E. Schilbach ,
R.-D. Scholz  and
S. Hirte
E. Schilbach
Affiliation:
Universität Potsdam/Sternwarte Babelsberg, An der Stemwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
R.-D. Scholz
Affiliation:
Universität Potsdam/Sternwarte Babelsberg, An der Stemwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
S. Hirte
Affiliation:
Universität Potsdam/Sternwarte Babelsberg, An der Stemwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany

Abstract

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The combination of Tautenburg plates and automatic measuring machines provides a powerful tool to obtain photometry and proper motions of a great number of stars for statistical investigations of our Galaxy. Photographic photometry with an accuracy of about 0.07 mag can be obtained provided two plates of the same colour and a sufficient number of photometric standards are available. With two plate pairs and a 20 years baseline, a proper motion accuracy better than 4 mas/year can be achieved for stars over a wide range of magnitudes. Outside the Galactic plane proper motions are determined with respect to hundreds of background galaxies.

Type
IX. Galactic Structure and Stellar Surveys
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 148: The Future Utilisation of Schmidt Telescopes , 1995 , pp. 267 - 270
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1995

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