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Chromatic refraction in the vertical circle observation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

B. K. Bagildinsky
Affiliation:
Pulkovo Observatory of the USSR Academy of Sciences Leningrad, USSR
S. P. Puliaev
Affiliation:
Pulkovo Observatory of the USSR Academy of Sciences Leningrad, USSR
E. G. Zhilinsky
Affiliation:
Pulkovo Observatory of the USSR Academy of Sciences Leningrad, USSR

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In 1962 a photographic vertical circle (PVC) for determining absolute declinations was designed and constructed at the Pulkovo Observatory under the supervision of Prof. M.S. Zverev (Zverev, M.S., 1960). The Maksutov meniscus cassegrain system (D = 200 mm, f′ = 2000 mm) was used for the first time in astrometry. Its construction is symmetric and it is automatically operated. In 1963–1966 the declination observation of bright and faint stars of the southern hemisphere was made with this instrument (Zverev, M.S. et al., 1966). At present after the reconstruction the PVC has been used again for determination of absolute declinations (Bagildinsky, B.K., Usanov, D.S., Smirnov, B.N., 1978).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Reidel 1979 

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