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Surveys of the Southern Galaxy: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands, August 4-6, 1982
Burton, W. B. ; Israël, F. P. (Author)
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Surveys of the Southern Galaxy: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands, August 4-6, 1982 - Burton, W. B. ; Israël, F. P.
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Synopsis "Surveys of the Southern Galaxy: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands, August 4-6, 1982"
Problems associated with a general scarcity of observations of the southern sky have persisted since the present era of galactic research began some sixty years ago. In his 1930 Halley Lecture A. S. Eddington commented on the observational support given to J. H. Oort's theory of galactic rotation by the stellar radial velocities measured by Plaskett o 0 and Pearce: " . . . out of 250 stars only 4 were between 193 and 343 0 galactic longitude [= 1: 225