Mapping the sky : past heritage and future directions : proceedings of the 133rd Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Paris, France, June 1-5, 1987

Allocution De Bienvenue. - L'Astronomie Au College De France. - Oriental Star Maps. - A New Approach To Traditional Chinese Astronomy. - Naissance Et Developpement De La Carte Du Ciel En France. - The Greenwich And Oxford Astrographic Telescopes 1958-1987. - Past, Present, And Future Of Photographic Surveys. - The Carte Du Ciel - The Australian Connection. - Protohistoire De La Machine A. Mesurer Les Cliches Astronmiques. - T.N. Thiele And The Carte Du Ciel. - The "Carte Du Ciel" Instrument Of San Fernando: A Century of Activity. - The Third Reduction Of Giuseppe Piazzi's Star Catalogue. - Refraction In Tycho Brahe's Small Universe. - Fundamental Catalogues. - Documents Pour Une Exposition : La Carte Du Ciel. - Preserving The Past: Archival Preservation Of Observatory Publications Via An Optical Disk Project. - The First Successful Attempts To Determine Stellar Parallaxes In The Light Of The Bessel/Struve Correspondence. - Astrometry With The Yale Heliometer, 1882-1910. - "Petite histoire" du Congres astrophotographique de 1887. - Astrographic Catalogues Of British Observatories. - The Grubb Astrographic Telescopes, 1887-1896. - David Gill And Celestial Photography. - Construction Of The System of Positions And Proper Motions In The FK5. - Mapping Coordinate System Irregularities On The Celestial Sphere. - Compilation Of The Nirs Using The Eichhorn Method. - Recovery Of The Astrographic Catalogue. - The Development Of The Overlapping-Plate Method. - Rigorous Block-Adjustment Of The CPC2 Cape Zone. - Match Criteria for Automatic Alignment of Normal Astrograph and Schmidt Plate. - Status Of Photographic Catalogs: Available Material And Future Developments. - The Guide Star Catalog.I. Overview, History And Prospective. - The Guide Star Catalog.II. Astrometric And Photometric Algorithms And Precision. - The Guide Star Catalog. III. Structure And Publication, Status and Plans. - A Very Special Catalogue : The Hipparcos Input Catalogue. - Hipparcos : An Example of Astrophysical Uses Of Astrometric Data. - The Tycho Survey Of Stars Brighter than Eleventh. - The Yale Parallax Catalogue. - The Lick Northern Proper Motion Program. - 275 The Tarija-Pulkovo Astrographic Catalogue Of The Southern Sky: First Results And Perspectives. - A Catalog Of Reference Stars For New Reductions Of The Astrographic Catalog Plates. - Precise Proper Motions And Positions Of Stars From A Combination Of Fundamental Catalogues With The Hipparcos Catalogue. - Proper Motions From Carte Du Ciel Plates. - Linking Hipparcos To Extragalactic Reference Frame (Task Of Input Catalogue Subgroup 2130). - Radio Mapping. - Radio Continuum Surveys Of The Sky. - The Second Palomar Sky Survey. - The Naval Observatory "Short" Plate Being Taken As Part Of The Palomar Sky Survey II. - The Infrared Astronomical Satellite Survey Of The Sky. - Mapping The Sky - Surveys With Schmidt Telescopes. - The Contribution Of The Danjon Astrolabe To The Improvement Of The Fundamental Reference System at The Southern Hemisphere. - Mapping The Sky With The Carlsberg Automatic Meridian Circle. - Astrometry And Data Centers. - Proper Motion Of Determination Of The X-Ray Object 3A2254-033 Using the Astrographic Catalogue Of The San Fernando Zone. - The Compared Efficiency Of Centering Algorithms. - Presentation Technique De L'Astrolabe Photoelectrique Du Cerga. - Paris Full Pupil Astrolabe And Danjon's Prism Astrolabe A Statistical Comparison In Terms Of Time-Magnitude-Colour Equation. - Astrometry With Carte Du Ciel Plates. - Vers Un Nouveau Catalogue General Astrolabes. - The Carte Du Ciel And The Catalogue Photographic Plates Of The Bordeaux Observatory. - Current Status Of The Second Cape Photographic Cctalogue. - A Prototype Detector for The Astrometric Telescope Facility. - The Mama Machine: Proper Motions From Digitization Of Centenary Plates. - Solar Motion And Galactic Rotation: Results From The Lick Northern Proper Motion Program. - Towards The Definition Of A Unified Celestial Optical/Radio Reference Frame. - The Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner: A New User Facility. - A Program for A New Reduction Of Plates Of The Astrographic Catalogue. - NASA's Astrometric Telescope Facility. - The Tautenburg Part Of The Programme Studying The Main Meridional Section Of The Galaxy. - Optical Positions And Proper Motions Of Selected Radio Stars. - The JPL 1986-3 Extragalactic Reference Frame. - Proper Motions Of 47 TUC and NGC 362 Relative To The Smallo Magellanic Cloud. - Precision of Parallaxes From Automatic And Manual Measures From New Parallaxes Of The Hyades Cluster Region. - The Space Luminosity And Velocity Distribution Of Faint Stars. - The Parallax And Proper Motion Program Of The Shanghai Observatory 1.56-M Astrometric Reflector. - A Proposal for Mapping The Sky At Deka-Hectometer Wavelengths: The LFSA. - Mapping The Radio Sky: Compact Radio Quasars From The Parkes 2.7 GHz Survey. - Double Stars In The Astrographic Catalogue. - Optical Determination In The Positions Of Radio Stars. - Comparison Of The Effect Of Various Solar System Ephemerides On Equator And Equinox Solutions From Six-inch Transit Circle Observations Of The Sun.