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The UK Schmidt telescope plate catalogue and problems associated with increasing numbers of plates and users

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

S.B. Tritton
S.B. Tritton*
Affiliation:
Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ

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The UK 1.2m Schmidt Telescope (an outstation of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh) is situated at Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. The telescope has been operational since 1973 and has, to date, taken about 7000 plates. This paper discusses some of the problems associated with cataloguing these plates and keeping track of their locations.

Type
H. Data in Astronomy
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 64: Automated Data Retrieval in Astronomy , 1982 , pp. 229 - 231
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1982