Historical Photographic Plate Image Archive

GAVO's historical photographic plate archive (GHHPA) is a collection of various digitized historical photographic plates. It currently exposes:

  • the scans of plates of selected Kapteyn special fields obtained at Potsdam
  • the Palomar-Leiden Trojan surveys, 1960-1977,
  • a collection of plates obtained at Boyden Station, South Africa, kept at various German observatories.

Other plate collections kept by GAVO include the Heidelberg Digitized Astronomical Plates HDAP, ivo://org.gavo.dc/lswscans/res/positions/siap, and the APPLAUSE database from Potsdam.

Identifier
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/org.gavo.dc/hppunion/q/im
Related Identifier http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/hppunion/q/im/info
Related Identifier http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/hppunion/q/im/form
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://org.gavo.dc/hppunion/q/im
Provenance
Creator GAVO Data Center
Publisher The GAVO DC team
Publication Year 2016
OpenAccess true
Contact GAVO Data Centre Team <gavo(at)ari.uni-heidelberg.de>
Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; History; Humanities; Interdisciplinary Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics
Temporal Coverage 1910-07-15T00:00:00Z 1991-07-15T07:34:00Z