Our Galaxy

• Positions, motions, and parallaxes of stars
  • Introduction
  • Star positions and constellations
  • Star lists and nomenclature of stars
  • Sky charts and atlases
  • Catalogues of star positions
  • Precession tables
  • Radio astrometry
  • References on astrometry
  • Proper motions
  • Recent data on proper motions
  • Radial velocities
  • Recent data on radial velocities
  • Parallaxes
  • Parallaxes after Hipparcos
• The nearest stars
  • Data before 1981
  • Recent data
• Structure of the Galaxy
  • Introduction
  • Apparent distribution of galactic objects on the celestial sphere
  • Recent data on the apparent distribution of galactic objects
  • The local star field
  • Recent data on the local star field
  • Large-scale distribution of the stars
  • Recent data on the large-scale distribution of the stars
  • Large-scale distribution of interstellar matter
  • Recent data on the large-scale distribution of interstellar matter
  • The galactic center
  • Recent data on the galactic center
  • Properties of the Galaxy as a whole
  • Recent data on the Galaxy as a whole
• Kinematies and dynamics
  • Notation
  • Kinematics
  • Recent developments on kinematics
  • Dynamics
  • Recent developments on dynamics
  • References
  • Recent references