APASS and Galactic Structure (Abstract)

Volume 43 number 1 (2015)

Stephen Levine

900 E. Hilltop Avenue, Flagstaff, AZ 86001; selevi@gmail.com

Abstract

(Abstract only) While the AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey (APASS) catalog was designed to facilitate all-sky photometric calibration, especially for variable star work, it can be used for much more. This will be a short look at some of the aspects of local galactic neighborhood kinematics and structure that can be studied using APASS data.