The Astrometric Telescope Facility

David Black; John Dyer; Kenji Nishioka; Jeffrey Scargle; Charlie Sobeck; Eugene Levy; Robert McMillan; Michael Castelaz; George Gatewood; Andrew Buffington

doi:10.1007/BF00643696

The Astrometric Telescope Facility

David Black, John Dyer, Kenji Nishioka, Jeffrey Scargle, Charlie Sobeck, Eugene Levy, Robert McMillan, Michael Castelaz, George Gatewood, Andrew Buffington

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The Astrometric Telescope Facility (ATF) proposed for use on NASA's planned Space Station is similar in form and data output to ground-based long focus astrometric instruments. With a focal plane scale of 12.7 arc seconds/mm, the strawman design has a field size of 10 arc min square and a limiting visual magnitude fainter than 16. Output from an observation includes the X and Y coordinates of each star and its relative brightness. The targeted precision for the AFT is 0.00001 arc seconds. Portions of the observing program will be made available to members of the astronomical community.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	307-313
Number of pages	7
Journal	Astrophysics and Space Science
Volume	177
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00643696
State	Published - Mar 1991
Externally published	Yes

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