Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Atmospheric refraction" in English language version.
This paper and the method presented in it were submitted for publication in 1970 July. Unfortunately, the referee did not understand the utility of our new approach, and for personal reasons we did not have the time to argue the point sufficiently. We did distribute preprints, and the method has become, with improved atmospheric models, the technique of choice for the computation of refraction (see, e.g., Seidelmann [Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac,] 1992).
This paper and the method presented in it were submitted for publication in 1970 July. Unfortunately, the referee did not understand the utility of our new approach, and for personal reasons we did not have the time to argue the point sufficiently. We did distribute preprints, and the method has become, with improved atmospheric models, the technique of choice for the computation of refraction (see, e.g., Seidelmann [Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac,] 1992).
The accuracy of the result is limited by the corrections for refraction, which use a simple A tan ζ + B tan3 ζ model. Providing the meteorological parameters are known accurately and there are no gross local effects, the predicted observed coordinates should be within 0".05 (optical) 1"(radio) for ζ < 70°, better than 30" (optical or radio) at 85° and better than 0°.3 (optical) or 0°.5 (radio) at the horizon.
This paper and the method presented in it were submitted for publication in 1970 July. Unfortunately, the referee did not understand the utility of our new approach, and for personal reasons we did not have the time to argue the point sufficiently. We did distribute preprints, and the method has become, with improved atmospheric models, the technique of choice for the computation of refraction (see, e.g., Seidelmann [Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac,] 1992).
