After the completion of Oxford's role in the " Astrographic Catalogue ", Turner decided to assist the Vatican Observatory, which was having difficulty with its computations.
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In about 1901, the International Astrographic Congress asked the observatory to collaborate in the international star cataloguing and charting project, the'International Photo-Durchmusterung'or'Cape Photographic Durchmusterung'( CPD ).
13.
The human, Harvard Mansul, turns out to be a member of the Imperial Astrographic Society and he astonished to see Roger and his marines alive at all and tells Roger and the marines about his circumstances.
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In 1897 Frank McClean, a close friend of Gill's and the donor of the McClean telescope, discovered the presence of oxygen in a number of stars using an objective prism attached to the Astrographic Telescope.
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Despite, or because of, its vast scale, the project was only ever partially successful & ndash; the Carte du Ciel component was never completed, and for almost half a century the Astrographic Catalogue part was largely ignored.
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The first executive committee consisted of Benjamin Baillaud ( President, France ), Alfred Fowler ( General Secretary, UK ), and four vice presidents : Astrographic Catalogue since 1887, and the International Union for Solar research since 1904 ).
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Harris then moved the astrographic telescope, which had been in storage since August 1963, to the new site after arranging its refurbishment; the telescope recommenced observations on 29 March 1968, taking second epoch photographic plates for proper motion studies.
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Proper motions precise to about 2.5 milliarcseconds per year are given as derived from a comparison with the Astrographic Catalogue ( AC 2000 ) and 143 other ground-based astrometric catalogues, all reduced to the Hipparcos celestial coordinate system.
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"' Harvard Mansul "'is an award-winning journalist of the Imperial Astrographic Society ( the futuristic equivalent of National Geographic ) who is rescued by the Marines when he is captured by the Krath while documenting the Shin for a piece on Marduk.
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The "'Indiana Asteroid Program "'was a photographic astronomical survey of asteroids during 1949 1967, at the U . S . Goethe Link Observatory near Indiana University using a 10-inch " f / " 6.5 Cooke triplet astrographic camera.
