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Presentation Outline ● What We have 500,000 astronomical plates ● What We've Done Digitizing catalogs, trying scanners ● What We're Doing 3-year NSF grant to build a scanner and digitize 10,000 plates ● What We Want To Do Digitize them all and serve them on the Web VOWS-Sofia-2005-04-27
What We Have ● Harvard’s plates contain the most complete sky coverage of both the northern and southern sky over the longest time period – 1880 to 1989 ● Harvard Observatory now has 500,000+ photographs, by far the largest collection and 25% of the world’s total. ● Of those, between 250,000 and 350,000 will be useful for photometry and astrometry. VOWS-Sofia-2005-04-27
Page 1: The Harvard Plate Stack Scanning Pr
Page 5 and 6: What We Have Done ● Created digit
Page 7 and 8: Web Access to Digital Plate Stack C
Page 9 and 10: Next: Digital access to image data
Page 11 and 12: Access to digital images User Objec
Page 13 and 14: Access to digital images Search pag
Page 15 and 16: Access to digital images View of en
Page 17 and 18: Access to digital images By clickin
Page 19 and 20: What We Are Doing ● Using technol
Page 21 and 22: Harvard Digitizer Reality Harvard P
Page 23 and 24: But the plates aren't all ● To ea
Page 25 and 26: Telescope Log Digitization ● Sinc

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