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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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StarGazer - towards to the WFPDB integration
by
Rumen Bogdanovski
Space Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,Sofia Sky Archive Data Center
Coauthors: Milcho Tsvetkov

We describe a new developments of the StarGazer(SG) - star field visualization system and its integration to Wide-Field Plate Database- WFPDB (www.skyachive.org).The SG astronomical software system is designed for star field visualization based on stellar and deep-sky objects catalogues (YBS, SAO, Tycho, GSC-ACT, USNO A2) within a database over 60 million objects. Written in Perl, the web-based client-server a achitecture is used, powered by PostgreSQL as a search engine (www.skyarcvhive.org/stargazer).We are reporting the support of variable star catalogues like GCVS in StarGazer and the new attempts of automatic identification of the stars on the digital images and digitalized photographic plates.

Date received: February 24, 2005

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