Title | Lick Northern Proper Motion Program. I. Goals, Organization, and Methods |
Authors | Klemola, A. R.; Jones, B. F.; Hanson, Robert B. |
Bibcode | 1987AJ.....94..501K Search ADS ↗ |
Abstract | The Lick Northern Proper Motion (NPM) program determines absolute proper motions, measured with respect to an extragalactic reference frame, for selected stars in the blue magnitude range 9-18, north of declination -23 deg. Positions and photographic photometry are also measured. The final NPM catalog will contain some 300, 000 stars, whose motions are referred to some 70,000 galaxies. This paper, the first in a seri ... |
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