Digitised Optical Sky Surveys: Proceedings of the Conference on ‘Digitised Optical Sky Surveys’, Held in Edinburgh, Scotland, 18–21 June 1991

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Welcoming Address: Two Thousand Years of Optical Sky Surveys....Pages 1-2
Introduction....Pages 3-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Current and Future Programmes with the UK Schmidt Telescope....Pages 11-22
The Use of Eastman Kodak 4415 Film in the UK Schmidt Telescope....Pages 23-33
The Chinese Large Schmidt Telescope Project....Pages 35-39
The Deep 2-Micron Survey of the Southern Sky....Pages 41-42
Next Generation Optical Sky Surveys....Pages 43-52
Photometric Calibration of the Southern Sky Surveys....Pages 53-60
The Second HST Guide Star Photometric Catalog....Pages 61-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
The COSMOS/UKST Catalog of the Southern Sky....Pages 67-75
The Automated Plate Scanner Catalog of the Palomar Sky Survey....Pages 77-85
Digitised Sky Surveys at the Space Telescope Science Institute....Pages 87-94
The Selection of a Sampling Interval for Digitisation: How Fine is Fine Enough?....Pages 95-101
The MAMA Facility: A Survey of Scientific Programmes....Pages 103-108
ASTROSCAN II: The Next Leiden Microdensitometer....Pages 109-114
A New Astrometric Measuring Machine: Design and Astronomical Programmes....Pages 115-121
Hardware and Software Aspects of CCD Camera-Based Astrometric Plate Measurements....Pages 123-131
SuperCOSMOS....Pages 133-139
Real-Time Data Processing for SuperCOSMOS....Pages 141-145
A Colour/Proper Motion Study of the Southern Sky — A Planned Digitisation Programme on SuperCOSMOS....Pages 147-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Developments in Compression Techniques for COSMOS/SuperCOSMOS Data....Pages 153-165
Compression of the Guide Star Digitised Schmidt Plates....Pages 167-175
Proper Motions of M.A.S./Year Accuracy with Photographic Schmidt Plates....Pages 177-183
Updating the AGK3 Reference Star Catalog with Astrometrically Reduced Schmidt Plates....Pages 185-191
Calibration of Large Batches of Photographic Images....Pages 193-198
An Automated Image Measuring System....Pages 199-208
Automated Morphological Classification of Faint Galaxies....Pages 209-213
Automated Star/Galaxy Discrimination with Neural Networks....Pages 215-224
A Comparison of Star/Galaxy Classification Approaches on Digitised Poss-II Plates....Pages 225-230
Automated Stellar Spectral Classification via Statistical Moments....Pages 231-233
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Asteroid Searches from UKST Material....Pages 237-244
UBV Star Counts in Selected Area 54, and Global Structure of the Galaxy....Pages 245-253
A Search for Macroscopic Dark Matter in the Galactic Halo Through Microlensing....Pages 255-263
A Deep Proper Motion Survey of the Pleiades for Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs....Pages 265-270
The Absolute Proper Motion of the Globular Cluster M3....Pages 271-279
The Structure and Stellar Content of the Small Magellanic Cloud....Pages 281-289
The Variable Star System of the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy....Pages 291-294
Normal Surface Brightness Dwarf Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster....Pages 295-298
Surveys for Low Surface Brightness Galaxies....Pages 299-303
The APM Bright Galaxy Surveys....Pages 305-311
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
The APM Cluster Redshift Survey....Pages 313-321
Galaxy Correlation Function Constraints on Large-Scale Structure....Pages 323-334
The Edinburgh/Durham Southern Galaxy Catalogue....Pages 335-344
The ROE/NRL Cluster Catalog: I. Correlation with Southern Abell Clusters....Pages 345-351
The ROE/NRL Cluster Catalog: II. Correlation with Serendipitous Einstein X-Ray Sources....Pages 353-359
An Automated Search for Compact Groups of Galaxies....Pages 361-365
The Muenster Redshift Project — MRSP....Pages 367-381
A ∼700 Galaxy Magnitude-Limited Redshift Survey Near the SGP....Pages 383-387
The Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey....Pages 389-395
Extended Structure in the 3-D Galaxy Distribution at the Galactic Poles....Pages 397-404
A Homogeneous Bright Quasar Survey....Pages 405-409
The Edinburgh Multi-Colour Survey for Quasars....Pages 411-416
APM Surveys for High Redshift Quasars....Pages 417-424
Large Groups of Quasars....Pages 425-428
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
The Identification of Potential Counterparts to X-Ray Binaries Using COSMOS....Pages 431-440
The Einstein Slew Survey Catalog....Pages 441-451
The Rosat All-Sky Survey and First Identifications of X-Ray Sources Using Digitised Optical Plates....Pages 453-463
Optical Identification of X-Ray Sources from Digitised Sky Survey Plates....Pages 465-469
Optical Identification of Sources in the IRAS Faint Source Database....Pages 471-483
Optical Identification of the New PARKES/MIT/NRAO Radio Sources from Digitised Sky Survey Data....Pages 485-489
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Discussion Meeting....Pages 491-498
Conference Overview and Concluding Remarks....Pages 499-508
Back Matter....Pages 509-524