Digitizing the Harvard Observatory Plate Collection

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Help us put the resources together to save this treasure and make it available to the scientific community in the form that is required today! rjs
What will it take to digitize Harvard’s plate collection and store the results online? Total time - 5 years Total Program - $5M Total storage ~ ½ Petabyte Run rate ~ $1M/year rjs
Page 1 and 2: Digitizing the Harvard Observatory
Page 3 and 4: Before photography, astronomers’
Page 5 and 6: The first daguerreotype of the moon
Page 7 and 8: Since the 1980’s, astronomers hav
Page 9 and 10: Harvard’s and other plate librari
Page 11 and 12: The “analog” storage of data on
Page 13 and 14: To scan Harvard’s library of hist
Page 15 and 16: The scanner must provide astrometri
Page 17 and 18: The “Virtual Observatory”- envi
Page 19: The foundation and development of H
Page 23 and 24: The scanner and facility developmen
Page 25 and 26: Appendix I A perspective on the imp
Page 27 and 28: Aratus gave some interpretations fr
Page 29 and 30: “The earliest record to give quan
Page 31 and 32: Photography enabled “offline” i
Page 33 and 34: Harvard’s first astronomy “comp
Page 35 and 36: Work that took many “women years
Page 37 and 38: The Astrophotographic Catalog (AC)
Page 39 and 40: La Carte du Ciel A second set of 30

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