References: Hyades

• Bill Arnett's The Web Nebulae.

• The Hyades :- So Close, and Now, So Familiar (Brown, A.G.A., 1998, Mercury, 27, 17).

• A new Level-One computer-based experiment focuses in The Motion of the Barnard's Star. It is recommend that you complete this experiment first as an introduction to your project. Copy of the images required are available on the AstroLab file server at //astrotmp/barnard/

• W.M.Smart's classic textbook on Spherical Astronomy has a chapter on proper motions (copy available in the AstroLab).

• A fairly non-technical and extensive outline of the graphical convergent point method is included in Astronomy : Structure and the Universe by A.E. Roy and D. Clarke, available in the main library.

• Hipparcos measurements of nearby star clusters and associations A recent paper by Madsen, Dravins and Lindegren

• Adam's project tips

• Information and references to individual stars can obtained from the on-line SIMBAD astronomical database. A username and password will be given out to AstroLab students.

• For all targets it is recommended that images from the Digital Sky Survey are also produced. Retrieve an image from the DSS ( LEDAS, STScI, ESO). Save the images in FITS format and display on the PC with the FITSVIEW program. DSS-I is from the original POSS-I plates taken in about 1950.

• Astrolab's Astrometry References

• A useful recent paper is "A refurbished convergent point method for finding moving groups in the Hipparcos Catalogue" by Jos H. J. de Bruijne.

• Perryman et al. with data from the Hipparcos astrometric satellite and have derived a distance for the Hyades of 46.34 +/- 0.27 parsecs.

• Check out the Hyades in 3D. This includes a link to the Hyades Movie!

• Narayanan and Gould discuss the systematic errors in the Hipparcos distance determination.

• A Hipparcos study of the Hyades open cluster by Jos de Bruijne, Ronnie Hoogerwerf and Tim de Zeeuw.

• van Altena et al. have determined the Hyades distance using the HST Fine Guidance Sensors to measure parallaxes.

• Future space missions, like SIM - Space Interferometry Mission and GAIA will provide a new level of precision. See also this recent e-print describes the some of the goals of GAIA.

• Chapter 7 of The Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing by Richard Berry and James Burnell is an excellent introduction to astrometry. This book also contains very good general information about the reduction of CCD data. A copy is available in the AstroLab and in the University's Main Library

• Christian Buil's CCD Astronomy is also another excellent book. A copy is available in the AstroLab and in the University's Main Library

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