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DEPARTMENT FOR ASTROMETRY
The Department for Astrometry (DA) was organized in 1994 by
merging the departments of fundamental astrometry and photographic
astrometry founded in 1958 by A. O. Yakovkin, Corresponding
Member of the UAS, and Dr.Sci. I. G. Kolchinskii, respectively.
Until 2002 the head of the DA was Professor V. S. Kyslyuk.
Now Dr.Sci. A. I. Yatsenko is the head of the DA.
The facilities of the DA consist of three telescopes (double
long-focus astrograph, double wide-angle astrograph, axial meridian
circle) and measuring center (automatic measuring complex PARSEC,
coordinate-measuring machines ASCOREMAT and ASCORIS).
The DA deals with the fundamental, photographic, and stellar
astrometry, astrometry of the Solar System bodies, selenodesy, and dynamics
of the Moon.
Using photographic observations within the programme of the Catalogue
of Faint Stars (KSZ), some individual and combined catalogues of
absolute proper motions of stars in the KSZ areas of the sky were
compiled. The study of the Galaxy kinematics was carried out and the
parameters of rotation of the HIPPARCOS coordinate system were found.
Some catalogues of positions and proper motions of fundamental stars
as well as combined catalogues of positions of radiostars and
positions of geostationary artificial satellites were obtained too. In
1954-1994 large series of photographic positional observations of the
Solar System bodies were obtained and the corresponding database was
organized.
The programmes of fourfold photographic survey of the northern sky
(FON) and the study of the Galaxy in the meridional section (MEGA)
were proposed. At present these programmes are successfully realized.
Series of theoretical and experimental investigations for fitting the
dynamical and fundamental reference frames specified by positional
observations of celestial objects were carried out.
A selenodetic network of about 5000 points on the lunar surface was
constructed. Different models of geometric and dynamical figures of
the Moon were built and some peculiarities of the rotation of the Moon
and its gravity field were studied.
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