Catalogues of Fundamental Stars

The Spitzer Space Telescope’s infrared cameras revealing stars in the densely populated galactic center region.

The Catalogue of Fundamental Stars is a series of six astrometric catalogues of high precision positional data for a small selection of stars to define a celestial reference frame, which is a standard coordinate system for measuring positions of stars.

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