Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shuhrat Abdumannapovich, Ehgamberdiev
• Qudratillo Khabibullaevich, Yuldoshev
• Sobir Jurakobilovich, Turaev
• Zhao, Jianhai
• Yang, Meiting
• Tang, Zhenghong
• Yu, Yong

Titel

Present status of UBAI plate archive

Ist Teil von

• Journal for the history of astronomy, 2023-11, Vol.54 (4), p.456-468

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper discusses a photographic plate archive of the Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute (UBAI) of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, the history of photometric observations, the current state of photometric plates, and the process of their digitization. We will talk about telescopes used for observations, their characteristics and observations. In addition, we will also talk about the preparation of photographic plates for scanning. Also, the work carried out in the “UBAI-SHAO scientific and technical project” on digitization of photographic plates in the UBAI archive at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and future work will be reviewed and discussed.