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Determination of Nutation Based on Observations with the Pulkovo Polar Tube

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Inertial Coordinate System on the Sky

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Since 1953 regular observations have been carried out with the Polar photographic tube at Pulkovo [1, 2, 3]. A detailed description of the observational procedure, the data reduction technique, and error sources were given by Potter [4].

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  1. Bakhrakh, N.M. (1971) “Short period nutation from observations with the Pulkovo Polar tube”, Izv. Glav. Astron. Obs. Pulkovo, No. 187, 97–108. In Russian.

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  2. Bakhrakh, N.M., Kotreleva, O.V., Naumov, V.A. (1988) “Observation results with the Pulkovo Polar tube in 1953–1974”, in Yatskiv, Ya.S. (ed), The Study of the Earth as a Planet by Methods of Geophysics, Geodesy and Astronomy, Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 13–15. In Russian.

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  3. Bakhrakh, N.M., Naumov, V.A. (1988) “The Pulkovo Polar tube”, Izv. Glav. Astron. Obs. Pulkovo, No. 205, 18–19. In Russian.

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  4. Potter, H.I. (1956) “A method for reducing photographs obtained with a Polar tube”, Izv. Glav. Astron. Obs. Pulkovo, No. 157, 101–119. In Russian.

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Kotreleva, O.V. (1990). Determination of Nutation Based on Observations with the Pulkovo Polar Tube. In: Lieske, J.H., Abalakin, V.K. (eds) Inertial Coordinate System on the Sky. International Astronomical Union / Union Astronomique Internationale, vol 141. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0613-6_58

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