Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Apr 2006
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Virtual Observatory: Plate Content Digitization, Archive Mining and Image Sequence Processing, iAstro workshop, Sofia, Bulgaria,
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
The development of the Wide-Field Plate Database (WFPDB) over the last decade, as an initiative of the IAU Working Group on Sky Surveys, hosted by Commission 9, is presented. The latest version of the Catalogue of the Wide-Field Plate Archives (CWFPA) contains descriptive information practically for all of the existing professional wide-field photographic observations stored in 414 archives, comprising more than 2,130,000 plates obtained with professional telescopes at 125 observatories worldwide. The WFPDB is now the basic source of information for the archived observations and provides access to more than 25% of the archives' total number. Following the requirements of the Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) and the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA), the WFPDB offers digitized plate preview images along with plate raw data. The WFPDB team continues filling the database with information submitted or retrieved from the photographic plates, which would eventually enable the astronomical community to complement their studies with data going more than 130 years back in time.
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