Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Scanning the Harvard Observatory Plate Stacks
Publications
Popular Articles
This July 10, 2007 article in
The New York Times
by George Johnson describes our project.
(388,151-byte PDF file)
It was followed by this sometimes-interesting
discussion on Slashdot.
Scientific Articles
R. J. Simcoe, J. E. Grindlay, E. J. Los, A. Doane, S. G. Laycock, D. J. Mink, G. Champine, A. Sliski, 2006. "An ultrahigh-speed digitizer for the Harvard College Observatory astronomical plates", in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXIX, edited by Andrew G. Tescher, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6312 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2006) 631217.
Mink, D.; Doane, A.; Simcoe, R.; Los, E.; Grindlay, J., 2005. "The Harvard Plate Scanning Project" in Virtual Observatory: Plate Content Digitization, Archive Mining and Image Sequence Processing, iAstro workshop, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2005 proceedings, Sophia: Heron Press Ltd., 2006.
[PDF Paper]
Turner, David G., 2003. "The Power of Archival Astronomy" in JAAVSO, volume 31, page 160, presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the AAVSO, October 26, 2002.
[PDF Paper]
Last updated on Thursday, October 23, 2008 by
Doug Mink