The Heliometer as a Tool for the Measure of the Moon

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Mar 1985

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Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 110, Issue 1, pp.197-201

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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The heliometer has been the only instrument for the measurement of the lunar physical libration for more than a century. Bessel (1839), who introduced the use of the heliometer for the systematic measurement of the relative positions of craters on the lunar disc, has also developed the necessary formulation for the calculation of the lunar physical libration from the heliometric measurements. That methodology is presented, and results obtained by Bessel's students and other investigators who followed Bessel's method, are discussed.

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