Saving Astronomical Treasures

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2000-10-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0010027v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Contribution to the conference on New Era of Wide Field Astronomy

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The time domain is under-exploited in an astrophysical context, because the large photographic plate collections are almost never consulted by young astronomers. This is a result of lack of education of the more recent generations of astronomers, and of the deluge of terabyte-size datasets produced by new observations. Yet astronomical plates represent a unique set of resources and their quality does NOT improve with time. We point out valuable scientific projects that can be conducted with archival images and describe a first step to realize this at the Uccle Observatory, in Belgium.

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