Issue |
Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser.
Volume 130, Number 2, June I 1998
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Page(s) | 317 - 321 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/aas:1998228 | |
Published online | 15 June 1998 |
Solar diameter observations with the Astrolabe at Observatório Nacional - Rio de Janeiro
1
Observatório Nacional/CNPq, Brasil
2
Pulkovo Observatory, Russia
3
DANOF/Observatoire de Paris, France
4
CERGA/Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France
Corresponding author: Send offprint request to: E.G. Jilinski, Observatório Nacional/CNPq, R. Gal. José Cristino 77, CEP20921-400, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. e-mail: jilinski@on.br
Received:
24
September
1997
Accepted:
24
November
1997
Observations of the solar diameter are reported from the
astrolabe station at Observatório Nacional. All the observations
presented here were taken with the 1986-CERGA prototype of Variable
Prism, which enables many diameter measurements per day and to
observe all year round.
The 1996 DANOF software for digital CCD image acquisition and data processing
has been used. We adopted the recording of 46 CCD frames with direct
and reflected images of the limbs along the Sun's transit through the almucantar.
The independent observable is the accurate UT datation of each frame.
Here the first campaign results, from January to July/1997, are presented.
An asymmetry between the east and west transit is noticeable. The west
transit leads to a larger value for the mean semi-diameter and exhibits
a larger standard deviation. No clear dependence is found upon the daily
results, either on time or on observational parameters. The main outcome
of this campaign remains the average solar semi-diameter, from 1149
transits (863 East and 286 West), obtained as 95921 ±
0
03.
Key words: sun: general, fundamental parameters / CCD observations
© European Southern Observatory (ESO), 1998