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Sky Surveys and Atlases from the Large Schmidt Telescopes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

D. H. Morgan
D. H. Morgan*
Affiliation:
Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK

Abstract

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This paper describes the major sky surveys carried out with the large Schmidt telescopes and the sky atlases made from them. It also describes some of the science which has come from them and notes the importance of this work in almost every branch of astronomy.

Type
VI. Major Surveys and Archiving
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 148: The Future Utilisation of Schmidt Telescopes , 1995 , pp. 136 - 147
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1995

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