"AN HISTORICAL LIGHT CURVE OF CF OCTANTIS FROM DIGITAL IMAGES
OF THE BAMBERG PLATE ARCHIVE"
J. L. Innis, P. Heil, K. Thompson and D. W. Coates
PASA, 2004, v. 21, p. 284-289
"PASA, v. 21, Page 289 (ACKNOWLEDGMENTS):
.....
"This work has made use of the NASA ADS bibliographic database, the SIMBAD database
at the CDS Strasbourg and the Wide Field Plate Database
(www.skyarchive.org)".
......
"OLD ASTROPHOTOS: AVERTING A LOST LEGACY"
Sky&Telescope, March 2003,p.42,
p.43, p.44(!),
p.45,
p.46
Bradley E. Schaefer
Sky&Telescope, March 2003, p.42-46
"Page 44:
"A necessary first step is to create a catalog of all plates around the world.
This will be a tedious task, as most plates are currently noted only on handwritten
cards or in logbooks often in fading ink. Putting these catalogues on line is now being
done by the Wide-Field Plate Database team centered in Bulgaria, with 454,254 images
included (or soon to be added).You can view their archive at
www.skyarchive.org".
To see the whole paper:
The copy of the paper of B. Schaefer is provided by Dr. Vladimir Strelnitski - Director of the Maria Mitchell
Observatory(USA), January 30, 2003.
ESO Press Release 01/03 January 13, 2003
Discovery of Nearest Known Brown Dwarf:
Bright Southern Star Epsilon Indi Has Cool,
Substellar Companion.
"Notes:[3]
"The SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys (SSS) at the Wide-Field Astronomy Unit of the Institute for Astronomy at
the University of Edinburgh include digitised data of UKST Schmidt plates in the BJ-, R- and I-passbands, with
additional scans of ESO and POSS1 Schmidt plates in the R-band. A dedicated compilation of all photographic plates
obtained for astronomical studies during the past century is carried out by the
Wide-Field Plate Database project,
based at the Institute of Astronomy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia".
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