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Author:   M. Capaccioli
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1984 ed.
Volume:   110
Weight:   1.300kg
ISBN:  

9789027717566

ISBN 10:   9027717567
Pages:   632
Publication Date:   31 May 1984
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Resolution.- Schmidt Telescopes as Discovery Instruments.- The Eso Sky Surveys.- Sky Surveys With the UK 1.2m Schmidt Telescope.- Objective Prism Surveys.- The Case Low-Dispersion Northern Sky Survey.- The Detection of Faint Images Against the Sky Background.- Enhancement of Faint Images From UK Schmidt Telescope Plates.- Stellar Photometry With an Automated Measuring Machine.- Analysis of Images With the APM System at Cambridge.- Reduction Techniques — Eso Facilities.- Machine-Processing of Objective-Prism Plates at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.- The Automated Detection of Variable Objects on Schmidt Plates.- A Faint Galaxy Survey from Cosmos Measures on Deep Ukst Plates.- Visual and Automatic Classification of Galaxy Images.- A System for Object Detection and Image Classification on Photographic Plates.- Automatic Analysis of Objective Prism Spectra.- Remarks on T-Grain Technology Applied to Astrophotography.- Microspots on IIIa-J Plates (‘Gold Spot Disease’).- Internal Calibration of Astronomical Photographs.- International Halley Watch Wide Field Network for Large-Scale Phenomena, Calibration of Schmidt Plates Using Star Profiles.- The 2020GM PDS Microdensitometer at Muenster.- M.A.M.A. Project — A New Measuring Machine in Paris.- Image Detection System for Schmidt Plates.- A New Wide Field Electrographic Camera as an Optimum Detector for Schmidt-Type Telescopes.- Astronomical Performances of the Mepsicron, A New Large Area Imaging Photon Counter.- The Application of Optical Fibre Technology to Schmidt Telescopes.- Images from Large Schmidt Telescopes.- The Determination of the Vignetting Function of A Schmidt Telescope.- The Hipparcos Image.- The Schmidt Telescope on Calar Alto.- The 50/70-cm Schmidt Telescope at the Bulgarian National AstronomicalObservatory.- On the Astronomical Research with the Torun 60/90 cm Schmidt Telescope.- Japanese Orbiting Ultraviolet Telescope Project: UVSAT Working Group Report.- Astrometry with Schmidt Telescopes.- Compilation of the Hipparcos Input Catalogue-An Extensive Use of Schmidt Sky Surveys.- Small Bodies of the Solar System.- Wide-Field Imaging of Halley’S Comet During 1985–1986 Using Schmidt-Type Telescopes.- Objective Prism Spectroscopy of the Tail of Comet Austin 1982 G.- Missing Matter in the Vicinity of the Sun.- Galactic Research with Schmidt-Telescopes.- Space Distribution of Red Giants and the Galactic Structure.- Objective Prism Survey of the Outer Galactic Halo.- A Survey for O-B Stars in the Puppis Window.- Statistics of A-Type Stars as Possible Indicator of Star Formation.- Discovery of New Bright Peculiar Stars of the Northern Sky.- Use of the UK Schmidt for a Photometric Investigation of Red Stars in the Orion Nebula Molecular Complex.- A Survey of Northern BOK Globules and the MON OB1/RI Association For H-Alpha Emission Stars.- Present State of the Work on Automatic Spectral Classification At Tartu.- La Mesure Des Vitesses Radiales Avec Un Prisme Objectif Associe A Un Telescope De Schmidt.- The Young Open Cluster NGC 2384.- Asiago Schmidt Surveys of Variable Stars and Supernovae.- Hamburg Observatory Northern Milky Way Spectral Survey for Emission Objects.- Star Counts.- Stellar Population Synthesis and Star Counts to Constrain the Galactic Structure.- An Automated Method of General Star Counts for Dark Clouds.- The Magellanic Clouds.- Star Counts and Dynamical Parameters in the SMC.- Narrow Spectral Range Objective-Prism Technique Applied to a Search for Small Magellanic Cloud Members.- Photographic Photometry With Schmidt Plates of Star Clusters in theSMC.- Luminosity Functions of Old Globular Clusters in the SMC.- Ellipticities of ‘Blue’ and ‘Red’ Globular Clusters in the SMC.- Photometry of Extended Sources.- High-Resolution Narrow-Field Versus Low-Resolution Wide-Field Observations of Galaxies.- Global Structure of Galaxies and Quantitative Classification.- Surface Photometry of Pure Disk Galaxies.- Elliptical Galaxies with Shells.- Brand New Candidates for Deep Schmidt Plates.- A Search For ‘Young Galaxies’.- A Survey of Southern Compact and Bright Nucleus Galaxies.- Objective-Prism Redshifts of Faint Galaxies.- Objective-Prism Galaxy Redshifts in Fields Around the South Galactic Pole.- Searching for Emission-Line Galaxies.- Reduction of Slitless Spectra -the Detection of Faint Emission Lines.- UV Galaxies and Superassociations.- The Cerro El Roble Sample of Faint Ultraviolet Excess Objects in the South Galactic Pole.- A Study of Ultraviolet-Excess Galaxies Based on the Kiso Survey.- Quasi Stellar Objects and Active Galactic Nuclei.- Detection Of QSOs Near Large Galaxies.- An Optical Survey for Very Faint Quasar Candidates.- On The Cross-Correlation of Galaxies with UVX Objects and QSOS.- The Optical Variability of 3C 446.- The Physical Nature of the Blue Objects in the Field of BD+15°2469 (Virgo Cluster).- Optical Identifications of Radio Sources with Accurate Positions Using the UKST IIIa-J Plates.- Galaxy Counts.- Faint Galaxy Number Counts.- Observation of Intergalactic Dust by Schmidt-Telescopes.- Superclustering and Substructures.- Cosmology with the Space Schmidt Telescope -Galaxy Colors and Color Distributions.- Optical Design with the Schmidt Concept 1) Ground-Based Development 2) The Space Schmidt Project for the 1990’s.- Implementation and use of Wide Fields in Future Very LargeTelescopes.- Schmidt Astronomy and the Space Telescope.- Ground Based Developments — Reduction Systems.- Summary.- Index of Authors.- Index of Names.- Index of Astronomical Objects.- Index of Subjects.

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