The WG WFI Plate Database (WFPDB): Present Status

The WG WFI Plate Database (WFPDB): Present Status

The present status of the work on the creation of a Wide-Field Plate Database is reported. It is planned to collect the available information for about 1.5 million plates from 187 wide-field instruments in 71 institutes/observatories. The source data are from 213 plate catalogues, 65 of them in comp...

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Veröffentlicht in:Symposium - International Astronomical Union 1994, Vol.161, p.359-364
Hauptverfasser: Tsvetkov, M.K., Stavrev, K.Y., Tsvetkova, K.P., Ivanov, P.V., Iliev, M.S.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The present status of the work on the creation of a Wide-Field Plate Database is reported. It is planned to collect the available information for about 1.5 million plates from 187 wide-field instruments in 71 institutes/observatories. The source data are from 213 plate catalogues, 65 of them in computer-readable form. The structure and content of the Wide-Field Plate Database, now including 51 observation catalogues with more than 300,000 plates, is presented.
ISSN:0074-1809
DOI:10.1017/S0074180900047653