Astronomy from Wide-Field Imaging: Proceedings of the 161st Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Potsdam, Germany, August 23–27, 1993H.T. MacGillivray, E.B. Thomson, Barry M. Lasker, I. Neill Reid, David F. Malin, Richard M. West, Hilmar Lorenz H.T. MacGilLIVRAY Royal Observatory Blackford Hill Edinburgh EH9 3HJ Scotland U.K. lAU Symposium No. 161 on 'Astronomy from Wide-Field Imaging', held in Potsdam, Germany, during 23-27th August 1993, was the first conference organised by the recently-formed Working Group of lAU Commission 9 on 'Wide-Field Imaging'. This Working Group was instigated during the XXIst meeting of the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Buenos Aires in 1991, and represented a merging of the former formal lAU Working Group on 'Astronomical Photography' and the informal 'Digitised Optical Sky Surveys' Working Group. Dr. Richard West was 'invited' to be Chairperson, and hence was given the daunting task of organising the Group from scratch. The very fact that the first conference after only two years was a major lAU Symposium says much about the determination and enthusiasm of Richard West to fulfilling the aims of the new Working Group. The siting of the conference in Potsdam in formerly East Germany provided an excellent opportunity to advantage from the political changes in Eastern Europe. Good access to the meeting was possible by scientists from Eastern European countries, allowing exchange of information on the very important Wide-Field facilities in both East and West, information on the rich archives of photographic plates that exist in both East and West, and allowing discussions between scientists facing very similar problems in both East and West. |
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PHOTOMETRIC | 14 |
WIDE FIELD IMAGING AND PHOTOMETRY WITH 2k x 2k CCD | 17 |
FIRST STEPS TOWARD A CCDBASED SKY PATROL | 33 |
THE SCHMIDT TELESCOPE AT CALAR ALTO OBSERVATORY | 46 |
WIDEFIELD PHOTOGRAPHIC VERSUS WIDEFIELD CCD TECHNIQUES IN | 60 |
THE HITCHHIKER PARALLEL CAMERA AND STUDIES OF FAINT GALAXIES | 77 |
THE ESO MEASURING MACHINES | 91 |
Galactic Structure | 401 |
THE GALACTIC DISC EVOLUTION FROM V B V COUNTS AT THE GALACTIC | 416 |
ASTROMETRY AND GALACTIC STRUCTURE | 425 |
WIDEFIELD STELLAR STATISTICS FROM TAUTENBURG SCHMIDT PLATES | 441 |
MEMBERSHIP AND INTERNAL MOTIONS OF FAINT STARS IN THE GLOBULAR | 460 |
WIDEFIELD OBSERVATIONS OF VARIABLE STARS IN THE REGION OF | 475 |
THE BINARIESINCLUSTERS PROGRAM IN THE AGE OF IMAGING | 478 |
EXTENDED SURVEYS OF MC STAR CLUSTERS | 497 |
NEWLY DEVELOPED DIFFRACTION LIMITED OPTICS UP TO 180 DEGREES OBJECT | 109 |
KODAK AND THE FUTURE OF ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHY 127 | 126 |
PHOTOGRAPHIC WIDEFIELD IMAGING FROM SCHMIDT PLATES I | 141 |
HYDROGENSENSITIZED FINEGRAIN QUASIT ASTRONOMICAL PLATES | 157 |
ASTROMETRIC PROGRAMS WITH THE NEW HAMBURG PLATE MEASURING | 172 |
A UNIVERSAL MICROPHOTOMETER AND SOLAR CORONA POLARIMETRY | 188 |
CATALOGING THE NORTHERN SKY USING A NEW GENERATION OF SOFTWARE | 205 |
DATA COMPRESSION AND WAVELET TRANSFORMS 219 | 218 |
THE PERFORMANCE OF NEURAL NETWORKS IN ASTRONOMICAL IMAGE | 234 |
FAINT OBJECT CLASSIFICATION USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS 249 | 248 |
THE SYSTEM AND QUALITY OF THE AGK3U | 271 |
SOME RESULTS OF CCDCAMERA BASED ASTROMETRIC PLATE | 285 |
FOR ALLSKY | 301 |
PECULIARITIES OF THE INTERNAL PHOTOMETRICAL CALIBRATION METHOD | 309 |
BRIGHTNESS CALIBRATION OF DIGITIZED OBJECTIVEPRISM PLATES | 317 |
Archiving and Databases | 328 |
COPING WITH THE EVOLUTION | 339 |
AN INTERACTIVE DEEP SKY MAPPING FACILITY | 347 |
A WIDEFIELD IMAGING TOOL | 356 |
PRESENT STATUS | 359 |
CATALOGUE OF THE ROZHEN OBSERVATORY SCHMIDT TELESCOPE | 377 |
CARBON STARS IN THE SMC | 513 |
ABSOLUTE PROPER MOTIONS OF THE DWARF SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES IN DRACO | 535 |
RECENT RESULTS FROM LOW SURFACE BRIGHTNESS GALAXY SURVEYS | 545 |
SURFACE PHOTOMETRY OF LOWSURFACEBRIGHTNESS GALAXIES IN | 553 |
INTERACTING GALAXIES IN THE VIRGO CLUSTER 587 | 567 |
LUMINOSITY FUNCTION AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF NEARBY GALAXIES | 577 |
AN EFFICIENT METHOD TO SURVEY TYPICAL OBJECTS IN NEARBY GALAXIES | 587 |
PHOTOGRAPHIC SURFACE PHOTOMETRY OF BRIGHT GALAXIES IN THE M 81 | 594 |
A BURST OF STAR FORMATION IN GALAXIES OF THE M 81 GROUP | 596 |
AN AUTOMATIC APPROACH FOR SELECTING NEW Ha EMISSIONLINE | 610 |
THE PHOTOMETRIC AND GEOMETRIC PARAMETERS OF GALAXIES IN CLUSTERS | 626 |
GALAXY NUMBERCOUNTS TO B 28m 645 | 644 |
OPTICAL IDENTIFICATION OF ROSAT ALLSKY SURVEY GALAXY CLUSTER | 653 |
Mapping the LargeScale Structure | 667 |
A REDSHIFT SURVEY IN THE SOUTH GALACTIC POLE REGION | 687 |
SEARCH FOR FAINT GALAXIES TOWARDS NEARBY VOIDS | 705 |
Properties and Clustering of Objects at Large Redshifts | 718 |
A STUDY OF THE OPTICAL LONGTERM BEHAVIOUR OF QUASARS | 737 |
Photographic Plate Supply | 753 |
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accuracy analysis archive arcsec arcseconds asteroids astrograph astrometric Astron Astronomy from Wide-Field Astrophys Astrophysical background calibration camera carbon stars catalogue centre classification clusters comet COSMOS density detected diameter discovery disk distribution dSphs dwarf emulsion errors European Southern Observatory evolution exposures extragalactic faint fainter field Figure film filter flare stars focal focal ratios galactic galaxies globular clusters H. T. MacGillivray halo Hipparcos IIIa-F kinematics km/s Kodak large number limiting magnitude luminosity function measuring machine method mirror objects observations Observatory obtained Ondřejov optical orbit Palomar parameters photographic plates photometric pixel position proper motions QSOs quasars range ratio redshift References region sample scale scanning Schmidt plates Schmidt telescope Sky Survey Sonneberg spectral square degrees star/galaxy stellar structure surface brightness Tautenburg Tech-Pan UKST variable velocity wavelet Wide-Field Imaging X-ray