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What is Astrometry? What are its objectives and its place in astronomy? By what means are these goals achieved? These are the questions that we answer in this chapter before entering into the detailed description of the basic techniques of astrometry.
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Kovalevsky, J. (2002). Presentation of Astrometry. In: Modern Astrometry. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04730-9_1
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