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

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Age of the Specialist in Astronomical Photography....Pages 2-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Stages of Photographic Development....Pages 22-27
Microspots on Spectroscopic Emulsions — An Update....Pages 28-33
Automatic Grid Processing of Large Photographic Plates....Pages 34-37
Astronomical Tests of FAE Processing....Pages 38-39
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Hypersensitization of Kodak IN Emulsions at the Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory....Pages 42-46
Hydrogen Hypering at Tesca....Pages 47-48
Temperature Influence on Hydrogen Treatment of Kodak IIa-O and 103a-O Plates....Pages 49-55
Spectral Sensitivities of Hypersensitized Emulsions....Pages 56-60
Desensitization of Hypersensitized IIIa-J Plates by Exposure to Ambient Air....Pages 61-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Fitting Procedures for the Characteristic Curve....Pages 64-67
Calibration Problems on Schmidt Plates....Pages 68-70
New Emulsions and Sensitometry....Pages 71-76
Internal Calibration of Stellar Magnitudes....Pages 77-82
A Physically Founded Analytical Representation of the Characteristic Curve....Pages 83-90
Photographic Calibration of Sunspot Equidensitograms....Pages 91-91
On the Adaptive Procedure of Brightness Evaluation from the Characteristic Curves....Pages 92-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
A Two-Stage Masking Technique for Revealing High-Density Features in Astronomical Photographic Plates....Pages 98-104
Atlas Copying On-Film....Pages 105-115
Identification and Elimination of Plate Flaws in Copying....Pages 116-120
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
On the Employment of Copies in Astrophotography....Pages 121-124
The Superimposition of Many Plates....Pages 125-132
A Special Method of Transferring Information on the Basis of Inner-Picture Development....Pages 133-134
General Properties of Kodak Plates Used in Astronomy....Pages 135-139
Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey — Photographic Procedures....Pages 140-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
A New XY Measuring Machine....Pages 146-148
Planning an Autofocus System for PDS-Microdensitometers....Pages 149-154
The ASAG Program Package for Image Processing....Pages 155-156
Photometric Accuracy of an Adaptive Filtering Technique....Pages 157-161
Two Digital Filtering Methods and the Spiral Structure of the M 31 Galaxy....Pages 162-168
Spectral Classification at Low Dispersion....Pages 169-172
Fast Astrometric Reduction at Tesca....Pages 173-177
Astrometric Accuracy on Tautenburg Schmidt Plates....Pages 178-181
Astrometry on Tautenburg Schmidt Plates for Improvement of the Astronomical Reference Frame....Pages 182-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Automated Detection of Large-Scale Structures in Space I: Reduction of Direct Schmidt-Plates....Pages 186-191
Automated Detection of Large-Scale Structures in Space II: Redshift Measurements....Pages 192-197
Automated Detection of Large-Scale Structures in Space III: A Search for Quasars....Pages 198-200
Stellar Photometry with Schmidt Plates....Pages 201-208
The Accuracy of Photographic Photometry of Stars....Pages 209-209
A Deep High Resolution Wide Field Survey of the Milky Way....Pages 210-216
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Some Results of the Faint Asteroid Search in Tautenburg....Pages 217-222
The Plate Collection of Sonneberg Observatory....Pages 223-225
Project for the Photometry of Clusters of Galaxies....Pages 226-229
The Discovery of a Proto-Spiral Galaxy....Pages 230-233
Recent Photographic Work with the U.K. Schmidt Telescope....Pages 234-238
Present Status of the Kiso Observatory....Pages 239-240
Back Matter....Pages 241-241