Table 1. Delta-m Catalog Method Statistics 1 January 2012 ---------------------------------------------+------+---------+--------------+ Method Description | Code | Number | Mean Delta-m | ---------------------------------------------+------+---------+--------------+ Refractor, micrometer | A | 100 | 1.74 | Reflector, micrometer | B | 0 | | Comparison image micrometer | C | 265 | 1.02 | Heliometer | D | 3 | 1.87 | wide field CCD astrometry | E | 8,544 | 1.46 | CCD astrometry | F | 158,098 | 1.61 | Photographic, with astrograph | G | 51 | 0.96 | Photographic, medium or long-focus technique | H | 1,424 | 1.19 | includes ocular enlargement | | | | Transit method | I | 0 | | Visual interferometer, aperture is of largest| J | 119 | 1.04 | baseline on the monolithic mirror (e.g., | | | | Finsen's 26" or 240" on the 20 foot beam | | | | used on the 100") | | | | Long baseline interferometer | K | 72 | 1.65 | aperture is of largest telescope or | | | | siderostat not the baseline. | | | | Electronographic camera | L | 40 | 1.98 | Meridian circle | M | 57 | 1.41 | Visual measures with double-image micrometer | N | 364 | 1.28 | Lunar Occultation | O | 629 | 1.44 | Photoelectric phase-grating interferometer | P | 464 | 1.08 | HST (FGS, WFPC, NICMOS, etc.) | Q | 83 | 2.02 | micrometer plus comparison image micrometer | R | 3,873 | 1.47 | Speckle interferometry | S | 4,762 | 1.54 | Hipparcos or Tycho type observation | T | 5,925 | 1.31 | Adaptive Optics | U | 3,060 | 6.49 | Photocell with diaphragm in focal plane | V | 205 | 2.56 | Area scanner | W | 1,153 | 1.75 | Visual estimate made with objective grating | X | 316 | 0.24 | Wedge photometer | Y | 4,124 | 3.27 | double-image or polarizing photometer | Z | 1,673 | 2.63 | ---------------------------------------------+------+---------+--------------+ Total 195,530 1.71