Astrophotography: Proceedings of the IAU Workshop, Jena, GDR, April 21-24,1987

by Siegfried Marx (Editor)

Overview

This volume contains the proceedings of the workshop "Astrophotography 87", which was held in Jena, April 21-24, 1987. The workshop was organized by the Central Institute of Astrophysics of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic and is the latest in a series devoted to the problems of photography in astronomy. The previous workshops, which have taken place every three years, were held in Edinburgh (1984), Nice (1981) and Geneva (1978). For telescopes with large fields of view, in particular Schmidt telescopes, photographic plates are the only suitable radiation receiver. Thus the effi­ ciency of the photographic plate determines the quality of the observation. The treatment of the plates in the photographic laboratory is also very im­ portant. Additional factors affecting the scientific results are the measuring machines and the methods of interpretation. All these topics were discussed in the workshop by the 62 participants (26 from the GDR and 36 from 13 other countries. Thanks go to David Malin, the chairman of the working group "Astropho­ tography" of the International Astronomical Union, for writing an introduc­ tory article for the proceedings. I am grateful to all participants who presented papers during the workshop for sending in their manuscripts on time. Poster papers are arranged among the other papers according to the topics they treat. All participants also wish to express their thanks to Springer­ Verlag for publishing the proceedings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642832703
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/14/2011
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
Pages:	241
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

I Review of Astronomical Photography.- The Age of the Specialist in Astronomical Photography.- II Photographic Emulsions.- Stages of Photographic Development.- Microspots on Spectroscopic Emulsions — An Update.- Automatic Grid Processing of Large Photographic Plates.- Astronomical Tests of FAE Processing.- III Hypersensitization.- Hypersensitization of Kodak IN Emulsions at the Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory.- Hydrogen Hypering at Tesca.- Temperature Influence on Hydrogen Treatment of Kodak IIa-O and 103a-O Plates.- Spectral Sensitivities of Hypersensitized Emulsions.- Desensitization of Hypersensitized IIIa-J Plates by Exposure to Ambient Air.- IV Calibration and Sensitometry.- Fitting Procedures for the Characteristic Curve.- Calibration Problems on Schmidt Plates.- New Emulsions and Sensitometry.- Internal Calibratioin of Stellar Magnitudes.- A Physically Founded Analytical Representation of the Characteristic.- Photographic Calibration of Sunspot Equidensitograms.- On the Adaptive Procedure of Brightness Evaluation from the Characteristic Curves.- V Photographic Techniques.- A Two-Stage Masking Technique for Revealing High-Density Features in Astronomical Photographic Plates.- Atlas Copying On-Film.- Identification and Elimination of Plate Flaws in Copying.- On the Employment of Copies in Astrophotography.- The Superimposition of Many Plates.- A Special Method of Transferring Information on the Basis of Inner-Picture Development.- General Properties of Kodak Plates Used in Astronomy.- Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey — Photographic Procedures.- VI Measurement and Reduction.- A New XY Measuring Machine.- Planning an Autofocus System for PDS-Microdensitometers.- The ASAG Program Package for Image Processing.- Photometric Accuracy of an Adaptive Filtering Technique.- Two Digital Filtering Methods and the Spiral Structure of the M 31 Galaxy.- Spectral Classification at Low Dispersion.- Fast Astrometric Reduction at Tesca.- Astrometric Accuracy on Tautenburg Schmidt Plates.- Astrometry on Tautenburg Schmidt Plates for Improvement of the Astronomical Reference Frame.- VII Astronomical Applications.- Automated Detection of Large-Scale Structures in Space I: Reduction of Direct Schmidt-Plates.- Automated Detection of Large-Scale Structures in Space II: Redshift Measurements.- Automated Detection of Large-Scale Structures in Space III: A Search for Quasars.- Stellar Photometry with Schmidt Plates.- The Accuracy of Photographic Photometry of Stars.- A Deep High Resolution Wide Field Survey of the Milky Way.- Some Results of the Faint Asteroid Search in Tautenburg.- The Plate Collection of Sonneberg Observatory.- Project for the Photometry of Clusters of Galaxies.- The Discovery of a Proto-Spiral Galaxy.- Recent Photographic Work with the U. K. Schmidt Telescope.- Present Status of the Kiso Observatory.- Index of Contributors.