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Digitised Optical Sky Surveys :

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Digitised Optical Sky Surveys :

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Proceedings of the Conference on 'Digitised Optical Sky Surveys', Held in Edinburgh, Scotland, 18-21 June 1991

edited by H.T. MacGillivray, E.B. Thomson.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer

1992

(544 pages)

Astrophysics and Space Science Library, A Series of Books on the Recent Developments of Space Science and of General Geophysics and Astrophysics Published in Connection with the Journal Space Science Reviews,, 174.

Preface. Introduction. Part One: Sky Surveys and Calibration Programmes. Part Two: Digitisation Programmes -- Current and Planned. Part Three: Developments in Techniques -- Compression, Astrometry, Photometry and Object Classification. Part Four: Astronomy from Large-Scale Digitised Surveys. Part Five: Optical Identification Programmes Using Digitised Surveys. Author Index. Subject Index. Object Index.

Astronomical photographs contain an enormous amount of information. This presents extremely interesting problems when one wishes to produce digitised sky atlases, to archive the digitised material, to develop sophisticated devices to do the digitising, and to create software to procecc the vast amounts of data. All these activities are necessary to be able to do astronomy.
One such activity is the important, large-scale optical identification of objects which also emit radiation at other wavelengths. Other activities of the past decade include a multiplicity of surveys that have been made on galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
This book treats, in five sections, the existing and future surveys, their digitisation and their impact on astronomy. It is a reference for people in the field and for those who wish to engage in using or producing sky surveys.

Proceedings of the Conference on 'Digitised Optical Sky Surveys', held in Edinburgh, Scotland, 18-21 June 1991

Astrometry -- Data processing -- Congresses.

Astrometry -- Data processing.

Astronomical photometry -- Data processing -- Congresses.

edited by H.T. MacGillivray, E.B. Thomson.

E B Thomson

H T MacGillivray

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