Astrometry Lost and Regained

• Published in: Open astronomy Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 221 - 230
• Main Author: Høg E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter 01.06.2011
• Subjects: astrometry; astronomical instrumentation; history of astronomy
• ISSN: 2543-6376
• DOI: 10.1515/astro-2017-0286

Technological and scientific developments during the past century made a new branch of astronomy flourish, i.e. astrophysics, and resulted in our present deep understanding of the whole Universe. But this brought astrometry almost to extinction because it was considered to be dull and old-fashioned,...