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On the Effect of the Scale Value on the Principal Nutation Terms Derived from the ILS Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

E. A. Yablokov*
Affiliation:
Latitude Station, Gorky University, Gorky, 603062, USSR

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The scale values used in the work of the International Latitude Service are known to be in some cases evidently erroneous. After trying various methods to improve these values, E. P. Fedorov (1963) decided on the one based on the computation of the mean latitudes obtained from observations of the pairs with zenith distances of opposite sign.

Type
Session II
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

References

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