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Post-Hipparcos Cosmic Candles (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)
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Post-Hipparcos Cosmic Candles (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)
Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 237
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In May 1976, when one of us was temporarily associated with Stras
bourg Observatory for lecturing on distance determination methods
(Heck 1978), Pierre Lacroute - then in his last year as Director
there - mod estly requested comments on a project he had been
cherishing for quite a few years, and which he had been presenting
to visitors and colleagues: an astrometric satellite. His
persuasiveness and persistence won support from the scientific com
munity, from the French space agency CNES and from the European
Space Agency (ESA): the Hipparcos satellite was born. It was
fitting that Lacroute lived long enough after his retirement to
attend the launch of his brainchild in 1989 and to see it
successfully operational. He knew however he would not enjoy the
completion of this long and ambitious mission (he passed away on 14
January 1993, a few days before reaching the age of 87). In May
1997, in the prestigious setting of San Giorgio :Maggiore in
Venice, ESA organized a symposium celebrating the presentation of
the Hipparcos and Tycho catalogues. That conference signalled also
the re lease of the first scientific results based at least
partially on Hipparcos data. An impressive proceedings volume
(Battrick 1997) of more than nine hundred pages, gathering together
almost two hundred contributions, gave evidence of numerous studies
in progress, in addition to papers starting to appear in the
classical journals. The well-maintained ESA Hipparcos web site
(http://astro. estec. esa.
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