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Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner

A digitization of the POSS-I E- and O-survey plates was also performed with the Automated Plate Scanner (APS) at the Astronomy Department of University of Minnesota. So far all plates (E and O) have been scanned for abs(b) > 20 deg. All of the images detected on both E and O plate are being entered in a catalog with about 10**9 stellar objects and a few times 10**6 galaxies. This catalog will become available to the scientific community via Internet, and object catalogs for some Palomar plates have become available as ADS catalogs (see 3.4.1.). Contact address: C. Cornuelle at aps@aps1.spa.umn.edu. [References: Pennington et al. (1992, 1993), Aldering et al. (1994).]


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Sat Sep 10 12:52:44 MET DST 1994