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A review is given of some aspects of work in South Africa on the establishment, calibration and use of galactic and extragalactic distance indicators.
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Feast, M. Some studies of galactic and extragalactic distance scales. Astrophys Space Sci 230, 195–203 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00658180
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