Catalogues of Fundamental Stars

The Catalogue of Fundamental Stars is a series of six astrometric catalogues of high precision positional data for a small selection of stars to define a celestial reference frame, which is a standard coordinate system for measuring positions of stars. == Publication history == The six volumes in the fundamental catalogue series are as follows: The Fundamental-Catalog (FC) was compiled by Auwers and published in two volumes.

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