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JKT f/8 plates, for example, are mounted eccentrically. The plate data record must specify the celestial coordinates of the optical axis, preferably to within a millimetre or so. Section 8 gives details of how the plate centre (and the radial distortion) can be determined automatically.
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ASTROM Basic astrometry program
Starlink User Note 5
P. T. Wallace, Norman Gray
2nd May 2003
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

Copyright © 2003 Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils