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Accuracy in the determination of the absolute coordinates of lunar features or the physical libration of the Moon can be greatly improved by a technique providing lunar photographs on starcalibrated plates. An outline of the photographic technique and the computer programme for the reduction of the plates is given. In the Appendix the technical details of the double slide plate carrier which, adjusted to the Data Corporation Camera, secures high quality stellar images, are presented.
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Work supported in part by Contract F61052-68-C-0002 between Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (OAR), U.S. Air Force and the Department of Astronomy, University of Manchester.
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Moutsoulas, M. Star-Calibrated lunar photography. The Moon 1, 173–189 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00562825
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