General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities. Prepared at the Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California.

  • Washington, DC:: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1963., 1963
By WILSON, Ralph Elmer (1886-1960).
Washington, DC:: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1963., 1963. Series: Publication 601. Papers of the Mount Wilson Observatory, vol. VIII. 4to. x, 344 pp. Original blue printed wrappers; fading. Very good. Second printing (first issued in 1953). Catalogue of 15,106 entries for various stars. This work advances that of Dr. Joseph H. Moore, whose Lick Observatory findings in 1932 listed data on 6739 stars. / Wilson joined the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1939. He published multiple papers on stellar absolute magnitudes, proper motions, and radial velocities of various stars, along with binary star systems and orbital derivations of spectroscopic binaries. Among his publications was the General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities in 1953.

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General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities. Prepared at the Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California.

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WILSON, Ralph Elmer (1886-1960).

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1963


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