Image Processing Techniques in Astronomy: Proceedings of a Conference Held in Utrecht on March 25–27, 1975

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Astrometry....Pages 3-10
Photometry....Pages 11-20
The Photometry of Extended Objects: Diode-Array Detectors and Interactive Data Processing....Pages 21-30
Trends in Astronomical Spectroscopy....Pages 31-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Information Retrieval by Microdensitometry....Pages 51-55
Fourier Techniques....Pages 57-58
Television Detector Techniques....Pages 59-78
On Line Digital Correlation of Photon Counting TV Images for Stellar Interferometry....Pages 79-84
Photon-Counting Detector Arrays Based on Microchannel Array Plates....Pages 85-90
Performance of the Mit Silicon Vidicon Imaging System at the Telescope....Pages 91-96
A Self-Scanned Silicon Diode Array for Astronomical Photometry....Pages 97-102
Image Detectors for Recording Astronomical Ultraviolet Spectra....Pages 103-108
Mesure Des Contours De Raies Par Les Techniques De Television....Pages 109-116
Photometry Using Electronographic Techniques....Pages 117-124
Integrating T.V. System Development at Cambridge....Pages 125-126
Sec Vidicon System for a B alloon U ltraviolet S tellar S pectrometer....Pages 127-134
Problems of Oversampling with Sec Vidicon Television Systems....Pages 135-139
Some Experiments with an Sec Image Tube for High Precision Multi-Colour Photometry of Galactic Clusters....Pages 141-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Four Years Experience in APMS Star Plate Processing — Results and Future Plans....Pages 159-170
The Use of the “Galaxy” Machine at the Royal Greenwich Observatory....Pages 171-184
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
The Fully Automatic Program-Controlled Microdensitometer-Comparator of the Astronomical Institute at Utrecht....Pages 185-198
The Grant Measuring Engine....Pages 199-208
The U. S. Naval Observatory’s Automatic Measuring Machines....Pages 209-209
The Two-Coordinate Grant Machine in Long-Focus Astrometry....Pages 211-216
The Cosmos Facility at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh....Pages 217-222
The ESO S-3000 Measuring Machine....Pages 223-228
Iris — A Two Axis Comparator and Microdensitometer using Two Different Scanning Modes....Pages 229-236
Machine a Mesurer de L’Observatoire de Haute Provence....Pages 237-243
The Design of the New S.R.C. Automated Photographic Measuring System....Pages 245-246
The Computer Controlled Comparator Astroscan....Pages 247-253
A Simultaneous Six-Channel Microphotometer with Computerized Data Acquisition....Pages 255-260
A Very Simple Digital Microdensitometer-Comparator....Pages 261-264
Photoelectric Spectroscopic Plate Measuring Machine Built at the Meudon Observatory....Pages 265-268
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Software Techniques for Image Processing....Pages 271-283
Problems of Machine Independency and Interactive Matters....Pages 285-299
Aperture Synthesis....Pages 301-307
Interactive Computer Reduction and Display of Radio Supersynthesis Maps....Pages 309-309
The Design of Vamp Software for the Measurement and Reduction of Stellar Spectrograms....Pages 311-314
Development of Digital System for Stellar Spectra Reduction at Toruń Observatory....Pages 315-321
Evaluation of Raster Scans of Photographic Stellar Images x)....Pages 323-328
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Image Processing Systems Developed at MIT to Handle Silicon Vidicon Images and Spectra of Astronomical Objects....Pages 329-334
Handling of ‘Galaxy’ Photometry....Pages 335-340
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
Some Preliminary Results Obtained with a TV Camera in the Field of the Observation of Visual Double Stars....Pages 343-345
Echelle Spectra Image Processing for the International Ultraviolet Explorer....Pages 347-352
Semi-Automatic Determination of Equivalent Widths....Pages 353-365
Accuracy and Results of Spectrophotometry with Objective Prism Plates....Pages 367-372
Le Centre de Depouillement de Cliches Astronomiques....Pages 373-378
Intercomparison of Ground Based and Satellite Pictures of the Sun....Pages 379-384
Flying-Spot Analysis of Solar Images....Pages 385-390
Removal of Vignetting from Apollo Low Light Level Photographs....Pages 391-396
Search of Significant Features in a Direct Non Parametric Pattern Recognition Method. Application to the Classification of a Multiwire Spark Chamber Pictures.....Pages 397-402
Lock-In Image Subtraction: Detectability of Circumstellar Planets with the Large Space Telescope....Pages 403-409
Digital Image Centering, I....Pages 411-418
Back Matter....Pages 419-420