Vectorial Astrometry
By: C.A. Murray.
Publisher: Hilger
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Bristol [Gloucestershire]
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780852743720
Subjects: Astrometry.
Description: A definitive and authoritative treatment of astrometric measurement and fills the gap between relativistic treatises or research papers and the practical requirements of observational astronomers, astrophysicists and graduates.
Notes: Errata slip tipped in.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [337]-344.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Prologue; label: 1
title: Dynamical foundations of astrometry; label: 2
title: Astrometry of space-time; label: 3
title: The Earth; label: 4
title: Coordinate triads; label: 5
title: Precession and nutation; label: 6
title: Time-scales; label: 7
title: Astrometry through the atmosphere; label: 8
title: Astrometry in the tangent plane; label: 9
title: Global astrometry; label: 10
title: Stellar kinematics and the inertial frame; title: Epilogue; label: Appendix A
title: Vector and tensor notation; label: Appendix B
title: Derivation of the geodesic equations; label: Appendix C
title: The Lorentz transformation; title: References; title: Index