Surveys of the Southern Galaxy Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands, August 4–6, 1982
Description
Problems associated with a general scarcity of observations of the southern sky have persisted since the present era of galactic research began some sixty years ago. In his 1930 Halley Lecture A. S. Eddington commented on the observational support given to J. H. Oort's theory of galactic rotation by the stellar radial velocities measured by Plaskett o 0 and Pearce: " . . . out of 250 stars only 4 were between 193 and 343 0 galactic longitude [=£1: 225
Keywords
ScienceSpace ScienceAstronomyPhysicsAstrophysics
1983Book
Author(s)W. B. Burton
PublisherSpringer Netherlands
ISBN9789027716514
LanguageEnglish
