Schmidt Telescope Plate Archives

Tsvetkov, Milcho; Stavrev, K. Y.; Tsvetkova, K. P.; Mutafov, A. S.; Michailov, M. E. S.

doi:10.1017/s0252921100021849

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“…This has resulted to over 2 million wide field photos in Wide Field Imaging all over the world. From this quantity, more than 380000 of the wide field photos were taken with Schmidt telescopes (Tsvetkov et al, 1995). For more than 38 years, such an astronomical photo archive of photographic negatives, have been obtained with the Baldone Schmidt telescope.…”

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Baldone Schmidt (Latvia) Telescope Astrophotos Archive

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From 1967 to 2005, many astrophotos have been taken with the Baldone Schmidt telescope (80cmx120cmx240cm). These photos have being archived in the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Latvia (IAU code 069, longitude 24.4041 E, latitude 56.7734 N, altitude 103 m). There are over 22000 direct and 2300 spectral photos of different regions of the sky in this archive. There are also information on the photo materials type as well as the types of color filters used for phographiing the sky fields and objects. The home page of the Institute of Astronomy's Baldone observatory (www.baldoneobservatory.lu.lv) has the archive's description. Part of the description has also being published (Alksnis, et al., 1998).

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“…It will be centralized and will provide on-line access to the information on about 2 million observations obtained since the end of the last century. Previous descriptions of the WFPDB can be found in Tsvetkov et al (1994Tsvetkov et al ( , 1995.…”

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