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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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Scanning activities at Sonneberg Observatory
by
Peter Kroll
Sonneberg Observatory, Sternwartestr. 32, D - 96515 Sonneberg, Germany
Coauthors: Thomas Berthold, Peter Hiltner, Norbert Polko, Joerg Saenger

The Sonneberg Plate Archive with its nearly 300,000 plates is going to be digitized in an inexpensive and fast way. With the help of four commercial flat-bed scanners that are used in parallel more than the half of the plates will be scanned by midth of 2005. The lecture gives an overview about the technical approach, related problems, data management and man power. It also scetches some very recent results in stellar astronomy on the basis of this data.

Date received: March 14, 2005

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