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the star positions from the plates.
Then we have the Harvard College col-
lection of photographic plates, always being
automatically added to; and their annex at
Arequipa in Peru.
Such catalogues vary in their degree of
accuracy; and fundamental catalogues of stan-
dard stars have been compiled. These re-
quire extension, because the differential meth-
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