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Wide-Field Plate Database: A Progress Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M.K. Tsvetkov
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tsarigradsko Shose, BG-1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
K.Y. Stavrev
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tsarigradsko Shose, BG-1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
K.P. Tsvetkova
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tsarigradsko Shose, BG-1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
A.S. Mutafov
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tsarigradsko Shose, BG-1784 Sofia, Bulgaria

Abstract

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The current status of a database containing information on wide-field observations stored in plate archives all over the world is presented. The database will permit on-line access to information on nearly 2 · 106 wide-field (⪆ 1 degree) plates and films, obtained over more than a century with about 200 telescopes and cameras.

Type
All-Sky Monitoring
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1995

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