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Digitised Optical Sky Surveys

Proceedings of the Conference on ‘Digitised Optical Sky Surveys’, Held in Edinburgh, Scotland, 18–21 June 1991

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  • © 1992

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  1. H. T. MacGillivray

    1. Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Scotland

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  2. E. B. Thomson

    1. Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Scotland

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Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 174)

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Table of contents (62 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Welcoming Address: Two Thousand Years of Optical Sky Surveys

    1. Welcoming Address: Two Thousand Years of Optical Sky Surveys

      • P. G. Murdin
      Pages 1-2

  3. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • V. C. Reddish
      Pages 3-8

  4. Sky Surveys and Calibration Programmes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Current and Future Programmes with the UK Schmidt Telescope

      • D. H. Morgan, S. B. Tritton, A. Savage, M. Hartley, R. D. Cannon
      Pages 11-22

    3. The Use of Eastman Kodak 4415 Film in the UK Schmidt Telescope

      • K. S. Russell, D. F. Malin, A. Savage, M. Hartley, Q. A. Parker
      Pages 23-33

    4. The Chinese Large Schmidt Telescope Project

      • J.-S. Chen
      Pages 35-39

    5. The Deep 2-Micron Survey of the Southern Sky

      • A. Blanchard, N. Epchtein
      Pages 41-42

    6. Next Generation Optical Sky Surveys

      • M. J. Irwin
      Pages 43-52

    7. Photometric Calibration of the Southern Sky Surveys

      • S. J. Maddox, W. J. Sutherland
      Pages 53-60

    8. The Second HST Guide Star Photometric Catalog

      • M. Postman, L. Siciliano, M. Shara, D. Rehner, N. Brosch, C. Sturch et al.
      Pages 61-63

  5. Digitisation Programmes — Current and Planned

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. The COSMOS/UKST Catalog of the Southern Sky

      • D. J. Yentis, R. G. Cruddace, H. Gursky, B. V. Stuart, J. F. Wallin, H. T. MacGillivray et al.
      Pages 67-75

    3. The Automated Plate Scanner Catalog of the Palomar Sky Survey

      • R. L. Pennington, R. M. Humphreys, S. C. Odewahn, W. A. Zumach, E. B. Stockwell
      Pages 77-85

    4. Digitised Sky Surveys at the Space Telescope Science Institute

      • B. M. Lasker
      Pages 87-94

    5. The Selection of a Sampling Interval for Digitisation: How Fine is Fine Enough?

      • V. G. Laidler, B. M. Lasker, M. Postman
      Pages 95-101

    6. The MAMA Facility: A Survey of Scientific Programmes

      • J. Guibert
      Pages 103-108

    7. ASTROSCAN II: The Next Leiden Microdensitometer

      • E. R. Deul
      Pages 109-114

    8. A New Astrometric Measuring Machine: Design and Astronomical Programmes

      • Chr. de Vegt, L. Winter, N. Zacharias
      Pages 115-121

    9. Hardware and Software Aspects of CCD Camera-Based Astrometric Plate Measurements

      • L. Winter, Chr. de Vegt, M. Steinbach, N. Zacharias
      Pages 123-131
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About this book

Astronomical photographs contain an enormous amount of information. This presents extremely interesting problems when one wishes to produce digitised sky atlases, to archive the digitised material, to develop sophisticated devices to do the digitising, and to create software to procecc the vast amounts of data. All these activities are necessary to be able to do astronomy.
One such activity is the important, large-scale optical identification of objects which also emit radiation at other wavelengths. Other activities of the past decade include a multiplicity of surveys that have been made on galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
This book treats, in five sections, the existing and future surveys, their digitisation and their impact on astronomy. It is a reference for people in the field and for those who wish to engage in using or producing sky surveys.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Scotland

    H. T. MacGillivray, E. B. Thomson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Digitised Optical Sky Surveys

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Conference on ‘Digitised Optical Sky Surveys’, Held in Edinburgh, Scotland, 18–21 June 1991

  • Editors: H. T. MacGillivray, E. B. Thomson

  • Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2472-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1642-8Published: 31 March 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5091-3Published: 13 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2472-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0067-0057

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 524

  • Topics: Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences

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