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The WG WFI Plate Database (WFPDB): Present Status
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 July 2016
Abstract
The present status of the work on the creation of a Wide-Field Plate Database is reported. It is planned to collect the available information for about 1.5 million plates from 187 wide-field instruments in 71 institutes/observatories. The source data are from 213 plate catalogues, 65 of them in computer-readable form. The structure and content of the Wide-Field Plate Database, now including 51 observation catalogues with more than 300,000 plates, is presented.
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- Part Seven: Archiving and Databases
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 161: Astronomy from Wide-Field Imaging , 1994 , pp. 359 - 364
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1994
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