In particular, many consider the significance of Vesto Melvin Slipher's 1912 astrometric research at the Lowell Observatory on Doppler shift in a spiral nebula. |
It was designed to produce extremely accurate astrometric measurements in small fields, and has been used to measure parallaxes and therefore distance for faint stars. |
This method permits to access high astrometric precisions at the order of a few ten microseconds of degree. |
Two new documentation page have been writen on the automatic astrometric function and the calibration function. |
To date there have been no successful detections of extrasolar planets with the astrometric method. |
After obtaining the images, she used astrometric software to determine the coordinates of the target asteroid's apparent position in each image. |