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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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Catalogue of Wide-Field Plate Archives: Version 5.0
by
Katya Tsvetkova
Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Coauthors: Milcho Tsvetkov

The updated version 5.0 of the Catalogue of Wide-Field Plate Archives (http://www.skyarchive.org) since March 1st, 2005 is presented. This version includes additionally the original name of the telescopes used for observations, which enables the plate search in the observatories. The Catalogue includes information for 414 archives made in the astronomical observatories world-wide since 1879 up to 2002 . The distributions of 2 204 725 wide-field plates by different parameters as used telescopes (type, aperture, focal length, scale), period of observations, number of direct or spectral observations, archive type (table or computer-readable form), as well as inclusion in the WFPDB and location of the archives, are given.

Date received: March 14, 2005

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