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Fig. 3

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The distortion of the Galactic plane (the solid curve) in the FK5 system at J2000.0. The vectors denote the proper motions of certain points, although they should be fixed in the FK4 system at B1950.0. The solid line is the nominal Galactic plane with  = 0.

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