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- Stellar_triangulation comment "Stellar triangulation is a method of geodesy which uses cosmic instead of terrestrial targets. It was first done by the Finnish geodesist Väisälä in 1959, who made astrometric photographs of the sky at two stations together with a balloon probe between them.Even this first step showed the potential of the method, because Väisälä got the azimuth between Helsinki and Turku (a distance of 150 km) with an accuracy of 1\".".