Aug 5, 2025 · The Archives of Photographic Plates for Astronomical Use (APPLAUSE) project focuses on turning old astronomical photographic plates into digital images. These plates …

Apr 26, 2024 · The latest data release contains images and metadata from 27 plate collections from the partner institutes in Hamburg, Bamberg, and Potsdam, along with digitised archives …

DASCH — the project to digitize Harvard’s astronomical photographic glass plate collection — is complete at long last. With this milestone comes a new website, StarGlass, and preview …

Albeit there are two major astronomical plate digitization projects (Harvard DASCH USA and APPLAUSE rep-resenting German Bamberg, Potsdam and Hamburg plate collections), the …

Astronomical archives still contain some slumbering treasures: numerous photographic plates with historical sky pictures are waiting to be rediscovered. In a large-scale digitization project, tens …

Long-unexploited astronomical archives come to life at Meudon: the Naroo project precisely digitizes historical astronomical plates at the Paris Observatory – PSL, revealing essential data …

Sep 13, 2023 · Since the 1850s, astronomers around the world have taken nearly three million astronomical photographic plates using optical telescopes. Each plate is a unique and …

Through more than a century photographic plates (mostly glass plates with photographic emulsions) were used to record information on celestial objects. They were utilized both as …

Recently, in order to preserve these historical data and maintain their usability, the International Astronomical Union has appealed to all countries for global digitization of astronomical plates …

DASCH was the project to digitize the Harvard College Observatory’s Astronomical Photographic Glass Plate Collection for scientific applications. The legacy of this herculean undertaking is …