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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
The observations of bright zenith stars (α Persei and η Ursae Maj) have been carried out in Poltava since 1939. These observations have been used for determining the corrections to semiannual and fortnightly nutation terms and for studying the nearly diurnal free polar motion (Popov, 1968; Popov and Yatskiv, 1977). Recently the reduction of the new series of bright zenith star observations has been finished in Poltava (see Table 1). Therefore it was interesting to carry out a new analysis of these observations for the purpose of studying the nutation and of searching for the nearly diurnal free polar motion.