astrometry

How To Use astrometry In A Sentence

• The main branches are astrometry, celestial mechanics, and astrophysics.
• The pipeline that read out the positions of all the objects on the sky, called the astrometric pipeline, was to be done by the U.S. Naval Observatory, which had a tradition in astrometry for navigation. A Grand and Bold Thing
• Astrometry can also detect small wobbles in the motions of stars that may reveal unseen companion stars or large planets.
• Astrometry can also detect small wobbles in the motions of stars that may reveal unseen companion stars or large planets.
• In this way, astronomers will perform very precise astrometry to detect the reflex motion of stars due to orbiting planets.
• And while methods such as photometry and astrometry, which hold great promise in the long term, are still being perfected, other innovative approaches are already yielding results.
• This method, known as astrometry, is the oldest planet-hunting method, but no planets have yet been found based on it alone.
• One technique, known as astrometry, involves precisely measuring the position of a star.
• Astrometry can also detect small wobbles in the motions of stars that may reveal unseen companion stars or large planets.
• In Astrometry, the term is applied to the difference between the observed position (or magnitude) of a reference star and the position (or magnitude) listed in the star catalog.