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Twelve groups of stars were studied in the program, each group containing six pairs of stars. Each night, each station observed two of the star groups along a preset schedule and later compared the data against the measurements taken by the sister stations. Economic difficulties and war caused the
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implement a systematic study of this important phenomenon. In 1895, the creation of the International Latitude Service was decided by the International Geodesic Association. Its central office was based in Potsdam and headed by
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of 39° 08' north latitude. The alignment of all six stations along the parallel helped the observatories to perform uniform data analysis. The original six observatories were located in:
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Comptes-rendus des séances de la Commission permanente de l'Association géodésique internationale réunie à Florence du 8 au 17 octobre 1891
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In 1891, at the meeting of the Permanent Commission of the International Geodetic Association in Florence,
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closings of some of the original stations, though a newer station was created in Uzbekistan after
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The history of the Gaithersburg Observatory in Maryland, and the overall project
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The final six observatories were located, in order of Longitude (E to W), in:
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Yokoyama, Koichi; Manabe, Seiji; Sakai, Satoshi (January 2000).
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International latitude observatory of Ukiah, California, 1908
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commission, Internationale Erdmessung Permanente (1892).
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