Digitised Optical Sky Surveys

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Welcoming Address: Two Thousand Years of Optical Sky Surveys

   1. Welcoming Address: Two Thousand Years of Optical Sky Surveys

      • P. G. Murdin

      Pages 1-2

3. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • V. C. Reddish

      Pages 3-8

4. Sky Surveys and Calibration Programmes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Current and Future Programmes with the UK Schmidt Telescope

      • D. H. Morgan, S. B. Tritton, A. Savage, M. Hartley, R. D. Cannon

      Pages 11-22

   3. The Use of Eastman Kodak 4415 Film in the UK Schmidt Telescope

      • K. S. Russell, D. F. Malin, A. Savage, M. Hartley, Q. A. Parker

      Pages 23-33

   4. The Chinese Large Schmidt Telescope Project

      • J.-S. Chen

      Pages 35-39

   5. The Deep 2-Micron Survey of the Southern Sky

      • A. Blanchard, N. Epchtein

      Pages 41-42

   6. Next Generation Optical Sky Surveys

      • M. J. Irwin

      Pages 43-52

   7. Photometric Calibration of the Southern Sky Surveys

      • S. J. Maddox, W. J. Sutherland

      Pages 53-60

   8. The Second HST Guide Star Photometric Catalog

      • M. Postman, L. Siciliano, M. Shara, D. Rehner, N. Brosch, C. Sturch et al.

      Pages 61-63

5. Digitisation Programmes — Current and Planned

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. The COSMOS/UKST Catalog of the Southern Sky

      • D. J. Yentis, R. G. Cruddace, H. Gursky, B. V. Stuart, J. F. Wallin, H. T. MacGillivray et al.

      Pages 67-75

   3. The Automated Plate Scanner Catalog of the Palomar Sky Survey

      • R. L. Pennington, R. M. Humphreys, S. C. Odewahn, W. A. Zumach, E. B. Stockwell

      Pages 77-85

   4. Digitised Sky Surveys at the Space Telescope Science Institute

      • B. M. Lasker

      Pages 87-94

   5. The Selection of a Sampling Interval for Digitisation: How Fine is Fine Enough?

      • V. G. Laidler, B. M. Lasker, M. Postman

      Pages 95-101

   6. The MAMA Facility: A Survey of Scientific Programmes

      • J. Guibert

      Pages 103-108

   7. ASTROSCAN II: The Next Leiden Microdensitometer

      • E. R. Deul

      Pages 109-114

   8. A New Astrometric Measuring Machine: Design and Astronomical Programmes

      • Chr. de Vegt, L. Winter, N. Zacharias

      Pages 115-121

   9. Hardware and Software Aspects of CCD Camera-Based Astrometric Plate Measurements

      • L. Winter, Chr. de Vegt, M. Steinbach, N. Zacharias

      Pages 123-131

Astronomical photographs contain an enormous amount of information. This presents extremely interesting problems when one wishes to produce digitised sky atlases, to archive the digitised material, to develop sophisticated devices to do the digitising, and to create software to procecc the vast amounts of data. All these activities are necessary to be able to do astronomy.
One such activity is the important, large-scale optical identification of objects which also emit radiation at other wavelengths. Other activities of the past decade include a multiplicity of surveys that have been made on galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
This book treats, in five sections, the existing and future surveys, their digitisation and their impact on astronomy. It is a reference for people in the field and for those who wish to engage in using or producing sky surveys.

• Libration
• astrometry
• astronomy
• classification
• galaxies
• galaxy

• Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Scotland

  H. T. MacGillivray, E. B. Thomson

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