Digitization and scientific exploitation of the Italian and Vatican astronomical plate archives

Experimental Astronomy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-43

  Barbieri, Cesare ^a   Blanco, Carlo ^c   Bucciarelli, Beatrice ^d   Coluzzi, Regina ^e   Di Paola, Andrea ^e   Lanteri, Luciano ^d   Li Causi, Gian Luca ^e   Marilli, Ettore ^j   Massimino, Piero ^j   Mezzalira, Vincenzo ^a   Mottola, Stefano ^g   Nesci, Roberto ^f   Omizzolo, Alessandro ^b   Pedichini, Fernando ^e   Rampazzi, Francesca ^a   Rossi, Corinne ^f   Stagni, Ruggero ^a   Tsvetkov, Milcho ^h   Viotti, Roberto ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b VATICAN OBSERVATORY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^e INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^g GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^h BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

ⁱ CNR   (Italy)

^j INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI CATANIA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Digitization of astronomical plates; Objective prism plates; Photographic archives; Photometric calibration

Indexed keywords

EID: 11844257228     PISSN: 09226435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EXPA.0000028168.26442.30     Document Type: Article

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