Table information for 'lsw.plates'

General

Table Description: The main catalog of the plates contained in the archive.

This table is available for ADQL queries and through the TAP endpoint.

Resource Description: Scans of plates kept at Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl. They were obtained at location, at the German-Spanish Astronomical Center (Calar Alto Observatory), Spain, and at La Silla, Chile. The plates cover a time span between 1880 and 1999. Specifically, HDAP is essentially complete for the plates taken with the Bruce telescope, the Walz reflector, and Wolf's Doppelastrograph at both the original location in Heidelberg and its later home on Königstuhl.

For a list of all services and tables belonging to this table's resource, see Information on resource 'HDAP -- Heidelberg Digitized Astronomical Plates'

Citing this table

@MISC{vo:lsw_plates,
  year=2007,
  title={{HDAP} -- Heidelberg Digitized Astronomical Plates},
  author={Mandel, H. and Birkle, K. and Demleitner, M. and Landessternwarte Heidelberg},
  url={https://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/tableinfo/lsw.plates},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {GAVO} Data Center},
  doi = {10.21938/haTEMZmoaCTEK6XZvGU.fQ}
}

Copyright, License, Acknowledgements

• If you use this data, please acknowledge: "This work made use of the HDAP which was produced at Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl under grant No. 00.071.2005 of the Klaus-Tschira-Foundation."

  The data in this service was calibrated using Astrometry.net, 2010AJ....139.1782L.

• To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to the HDAP scans. For details, see the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Public Domain dedication. Of course, you should still give proper credit when using this data as required by good scientific practice.

  
• https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html

Resource Documentation

The scanning of the plate archive at Landessternwarte Heidelberg was initiated by Holger Mandel and Kurt Birkle in 2006 and was funded by the Klaus-Tschira-Foundation. Almost all usable direct plates in the archives are now scanned, and the funded phase of the project is over. Only minor additions are expected any more.

Trivia

This is what the photographic plates these scans were prepared from look like --

The archive of plates from Wolf's eight-inch telescope --

The Bruce archive -- the rack's bend indicates the plates are kept beneath an observatory dome --

The scanner used by this project (Heidelberg Nexscan F4100; the resolution is 100 pixels per millimeter at 200 pixels per millimeter optical scanner resolution) --

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