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HIPPARCOS

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HIPPARCOSHigh Precision Parallax Collecting Satellite


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The most recent measures had been made by the Hipparcos satellite and the values for 1991.
Among the topics are an overview of the Gaia Mission, a wide-field telescope in northern Arizona, astrometry and the virtual observatory, extracting sub-milliarcsecond parallaxes from Hipparcos data, NASA programs, the future of astrometric education, and the current state of scientific imagers for astronomy.
 
 
 
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