Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Aug 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997esasp.402..121z&link_type=abstract
Proceedings of the ESA Symposium `Hipparcos - Venice '97', 13-16 May, Venice, Italy, ESA SP-402 (July 1997), p. 121-124
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
Selected fields around radio-optical reference frame sources have been observed with the U.S. Naval Observatory CCD astrograph (UCA). This telescope is equipped with a red-corrected 206mm 5-element lens and a 4k by 4k CCD camera which provides a 1 square degree field of view. Positions with internal precisions of 20 mas for stars in the 7 to 12 magnitude range have been obtained with 30 second exposures. A comparison is made with the Tycho Catalogue, which is accurate to about 5 to 50 mas at mean epoch of J1991.25, depending on the magnitude of the star. Preliminary proper motions are obtained using the Astrographic Catalogue (AC) to update the Tycho positions to the epoch of the UCA observations, which adds an error contribution of about 15 to 20 mas. Individual CCD frames have been reduced with an average of 30 Tycho reference stars per frame. A linear plate model gives an average adjustment standard error of 46 mas, consistent with the internal errors. The UCA is capable of significantly improving the positions of Tycho stars fainter than about visual magnitude 9.5.
Corbin Thomas E.
Hoeg Erik
Urban Sean E.
Zacharias Norbert
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