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What is Astrometry? What are its objectives and its place in astronomy? By what means these goals are achieved? These are the questions that we are answering in this chapter before entering into the detailed description of the basic techniques of astrometry.
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Kovalevsky, J. (1995). Presentation of Astrometry. In: Modern Astrometry. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03138-4_1
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