IAU Commission 8
Astrometric Links
IAU
IAU Division I
SOFA
- Standards of Fundamental Astronomy
Densification of the Optical Reference Frame
- an old Commission 8 WG. Included here for archival purposes and to refer to its
survey
Catlogues and data
CDS
- the Astromonical Data Centre at Strasbourg
USNO catalog products
NOFS image and catalog archive
Space Astrometry
Gaia
- the next ESA astrometric satellite
ELSA
- European Leadership in Space Astrometry
JASMINE
- Japan Astrometry Satellite Mission for INfrared Exploration. This also links to Nano-JASMINE.
Ground-based Astrometry
CMT
- Carlsberg Meridian Telescope
URAT
- USNO Robotic Astrometric Telescope
Radio Astrometry
IVS
- International VLBI Service
Articles
ICRF2
- a technical note on The Second Realization of the International Celestial Reference Frame
Astrometry
article in Scholarpedia.
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Last Modified: 5 January 2012
Published by Dafydd Wyn Evans / IoA / dwe @ ast.cam.ac.uk