Session 28. The Reference System Resolutions of the IAU

Special Session, Monday, May 31, 2004, 2:00-3:30pm, 706

28.01 The IAU 2000 Recommendations on Reference Systems and their Application

N. Capitaine (Observatoire de Paris), D. D. McCarthy (U. S. Naval Observatory)

28.02 SOFA software support for IAU 2000

P.T. Wallace (Space Science & Technology Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)

28.03 Implementing the IAU 2000 Resolutions in The Astronomical Almanac

J. A. Bangert, G. H. Kaplan, J. L. Hilton (USNO), C. Y. Hohenkerk, S. A. Bell (H.M. Nautical Almanac Office, Rutherford Appleton Lab.)

28.04 Impact of the IAU Reference System Resolutions on the FITS Celestial Coordinate System Conventions

W. D. Pence (NASA/GSFC), R. J. Hanisch (STScI), A. H. Rots (CXC/SAO)