Astrometry
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Illustration of the use of interferometry in the optical wavelength range to determine precise positions of stars.
Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Astrometry is a branch of astronomy that involves precise measurements of the positions and movements of stars and other celestial bodies.
It provides the kinematics and physical origin of the Solar System and our galaxy, the Milky Way.
Concept art for the TAU spacecraft, a 1980s era study which would have used an interstellar precursor probe to expand the baseline
for calculating stellar parallax in support of Astrometry The history of astrometry is linked to the history of star catalogues,
which gave astronomers reference points for objects in the sky so they could track their movements.
This can be dated back to Hipparchus, who around 190 BC used the catalogue of his predecessors Timocharis and Aristillus to discover Earth's precession.
In doing so, he also developed the brightness scale still in use today.
Hipparchus compiled a catalogue with at least 850 stars and their positions.
Hipparchus's successor, Ptolemy, included a catalogue of 1,022 stars in his work the Almagest, giving their location, coordinates, and brightness.
In the 10th century, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi carried out observations on the stars and described their positions, magnitudes and star color; furthermore, he provided drawings for each constellation, which are depicted in his Book of Fixed Stars.
Ibn Yunus observed more than 10,000 entries for the Sun's position for many years using a large astrolabe with a diameter of nearly 1.
4 metres.
His observations on eclipses were still used centuries later in Simon Newcomb's investigations on the motion of the Moon, while his other observations
of the motions of the planets Jupiter and Saturn inspired Laplace's Obliquity of the Ecliptic and Inequalities of ...
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