The Astrographic Catalogue as a Source of Old Epoch Places

Abstract

At the General Assembly of the I. A. U. in Prague in 1967 I became involved in a discussion on the merit of using stars with positions taken from the Astrographic Catalogue as reference stars in finding positions of faint members of the solar system. The answer was that little choice exists if the positions are being found from photographs of small field taken with large telescopes.