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VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY: "Plate Content Digitization, Archive Mining and Image Sequence Processing"
April 27-30, 2005
Auspices of COST Actoin 283: "Computational and information infrastructure in the Astronomical DataGrid"
Sofia, Bulgaria

Organizers
Milcho Tsvetkov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute, and Valeri Golev, Sofia University, Department of Astronomy

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Astronomical Plate Archives: Past, Present, Future
by
Rene Hudec
Astronomical Institute Ondrejov

There are more than 3 million astronomical archival plates around the globe.I will give an overview of the worlds most important astronomical plate archives as well as related projects and science.I will also show that novel algorithms and software programs together with wide plate digitisation and use of powerful computers allow the full and effective extraction of the scientific data recored in the plates for the first time. Examples of scientific projects based on digitised astronomical plates will be given and discussed.

Date received: February 23, 2005

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