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OverviewAstronomical photographs contain an enormous amount of information. This presents extremely interesting problems when one wishes to produce digitized sky atlases, to archive the digitized material, to develop sophisticated devices to do the digitizing, and to create software to process the vast amounts of data. All these activities are necessary to be able to carry out astronomy work. One such activity is the important, large-scale optical identification of objects which also emit radiation at other wavelengths. Other activities of the past decade include a multiplicity of surveys that have been made on galaxies and clusters of galaxies. This book treats, in five sections, the existing and future surveys, their digitization and their impact on astronomy. It is designed to serve as a reference for people in the field and for those who wish to engage in using or producing sky surveys. Full Product DetailsAuthor: H. T. MacGillivray , E. B. ThomsonPublisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers Volume: No. 174 Weight: 1.160kg ISBN: 9780792316428ISBN 10: 0792316428 Pages: 544 Publication Date: 31 March 1992 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsPart 1: Sky surveys and calibration programmes. Part 2: Digitization programmes - current and planned. Part 3: Developments in techniques - compression, astrometry, photometry and object classification. Part 4: Astronomy from large-scale digitized surveys. Part 5: Optical identification programmes using digitized surveys.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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