Further reading

Most of the cited articles are accesible through Bibliothtèque Nationale de France and The NASA Astrophysics Data System. There is a NASA ADS web server for the historical literature and can be found at the Historical Literature Service. Without these electronic sources the work on this topic were simply not possible.

Astrophotography

DRAGESCO, J.: High resolution astrophotography.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.

KING, E. S.: A Manual of Celestial Photography, Principles and Practice for those Interested in Photographing the Heavens.
Eastern Science Supply Co., 1931.

SCHEINER, J.: Die Photographie der Gestirne.
Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1897.

SUITER, H. R.: Star Testing Telescopes.
Willmann-Bell, Richmond, Virginia, 1999.

WALLIS, B. D. und R. W. PROVIN: A manual of advanced celestial photography.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988.

Alignment of the hour axis

DETTWILLER, L., GOUTTESOLARD, M., MAURZ, A., ROMEUF, D., Complèments sur la mise en station d'une monture equatoriale, http://www.astrosurf.com/skylink/doc_astro/pratique/david/artsta.html

CHALLIS, J. : Lectures on Practical Astronomy and Astronomical Instruments.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1879.

CUSTER, C. P.: Photographic polar alignment of an equatorial mounting.
Sky and Telescope, 46(5):329-333, 1973.

SCHAEFER, H. H.: Feinjustierung der Polachse einer parallaktischen Montierung.
Sterne und Weltraum, 11:604-605, 1986.

SCHEINER, J.: Sur une méthode très simple permettant d'orienter un instrument a monture parallactique plus excactement qu'on ne peut le faire en général par des lecturs des cercles.
In: Bulletin du Comité Permanent International pour l'Exécution Photographique de la Carte du Ciel, 6e fascicule, S. 385 - 388, 1889.
Proceedings of the academy.

SCHÜRER, M.: Der Einfluss der Refraktion auf die Aufstellung und Nachführung äquatorialer Montierungen.
Orion, 176:28-30, 1980.

THE ASTRONOMICAL LEAGUE: Astro Note 15: Accurate Polar Alignment.
http://www.astroleague.org/al/astrnote/astnot15.html.

WALLACE, P. T. . K. P. TRITTON: Alignment, Pointing Accuracy and Field Rotation of the UK 1.2-m Schmidt Telescope.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 189:115-122, October 1979.

Refraction and dispersion

CUBY, J. G., D. BOTTINI . J. P. PICAT: Handling atmospheric dispersion and differential refraction effects in large-field multiobject spectroscopic observations. Optical Astronomical Instrumentation, Nr. 3355, Proc. SPIE, 1998.

DONNELLY, R. H., J. P. BRODIE . W. W. CRAIG: Differential refraction revisited. GRAY, P. M. (Hrsg.): Fiber Optics in Astronomy II, Bd. 37 d. Reihe ASP Conference, S. 270-281, 1993. Die Resultate einer ähnlichen Simulation sind im Artikel The Implications Of Atmospheric Effects For Fiber-Fed Spectroscopy zusammen gefasst (siehe fig. 5, 6 und 7).

FILIPPENKO, A. V.: The importance of atmospheric differential refraction in spectrophotometry.
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Publications, 94:715-721, August 1982.

HINKS, A. R.: On some Attempts to Counteract by Instrumental Adjustments certain Effects of Refraction in Stellar Photography.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1898.

KING, E. S.: Forms of images in stellar photography.
Annals of Harvard College Observatory, 41:154-187, 1902.

OWENS, J. C.: Optical Refractive Index of Air: Dependance on Pressure, Temperature and Composition.
Applied Optics, 6(1):51-59, 1967.

RAMBAUT, A. A.: To adjust the Polar Axis of an Equatorial Telescope for Photographic Purposes.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 54:85-90, December 1893.

TURNER, H. H.: Preliminary Note on the Reduction of Measures of Photographic Plates.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1893.

WATSON, F. G.: Atmospheric refraction and the design of a wide-field fibre-optics coupler.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 206:661-667, February 1984.

Devices

EISENHAUER, F.: Auslegung und Bau einer benutzerorientierten Nahinfrarot-Kamera für astronomische Beobachtungen mit dem adaptiven Optik System ADONIS am 3,6 m Teleskop der ESO.
Diplomarbeit, Technische Universiät München, Physik-Departement, 1995.

PRIEUR, J.-L.: Correction de la dispersion atmosphérique.
http://webast.ast.obs-mip.fr/users/prieur/, December 2001.

SARAZIN, M. . F. RODDIER: The ESO differential image motion monitor.
Astron. Astrophys., 227:294-300, 1990.

WYNNE, C. G.: A new form of atmospheric dispersion corrector.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 262:741-748, February 1993.

WYNNE, C. G. . S. P. WORSWICK: Atmospheric dispersion correctors at the Cassegrain focus.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 220:657-670, June 1986.

Catalogues

CENTRE DE DONNÉES ASTRONOMIQUES DE STRASBOURG
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr, 2002.

Mathematical background and text books

BRÜNNOW, F.: Lehrbuch der sphärischen Astronomie.
Verlag von C. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh, 4. Aufl., 1880.

GREEN, R. M.: Spherical Astronomy.
Cambridge University Press, 1985.

MEEUS, J.: Astronomical Algorithms.
Willmann-Bell Inc., Richmond Virginia, second ed., 2000.

Software

BRUN, R. . F. RADEMAKERS: ROOT, An object-oriented data analysis framework.
http://root.cern.ch/, Januay 2002

WALLACE, P. T. In DENNIS R. CRABTREE, R.J. HANISCH, AND JEANNETTE BARNES (Hrsg.): Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems III, Bd. A.S.P. Conference Series 61, S. 481, 1994.