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Limb profiles of the Moon from grazing occultation observations collected at RGO

Soma, Mitsuru; Kato, Yuji

From lunar grazing occultation observations it is shown that the present lunar limb profile data have sometimes large errors, and therefore it is apparent that they need to be modified. For that purpose observations of grazing occultations collected at the Royal Greenwich Observatory until 1980 were analyzed and lunar limb profile data were obtain…