Photographic Archives

A great amount of highly valuable information is stored in the photographic Archive of the Observatory: plates and films date from 1942 and go up to 1994, when the use of photography was abandoned (with few exceptions in the following years until 1998), with the use of CCDs.

The total amount of plates and films, obtained with the four telescopes in Asiago (Galileo 1.22m until 1942; Schmidt 40/50cm until 1959, Schmidt 67/92cm until 1965, Copernico 1.82m until 1973) exceeds 70.000. A project aimed to the digitisation of part of the plates started in 2001 (see details from here).

THE COPERNICO 1.82m ARCHIVE (INAF OAPd)

  • Nr. 3870 images (plate size 12x20 cm) from March 1973 to Sept. 1989 - List (excel file)

  • Nr. 4301 spectra from Sept. 1973 to Jan. 1988 - List (excel file)

THE GALILEO 1.22m ARCHIVE (University of Padova DFA)

  • Nr. 9720 images (plate size 9x12 cm), May 1942 - March 1997 - List (excel file)

  • Nr. 3220 spectra from Newtonian spectrographs, Apr. 1958 - Sept. 1991

  • Nr. 18584 spectra from Cassegrain spectrographs, Jan. 1951 - 1994

THE SCHMIDT 67/92 cm ARCHIVE (INAF OAPd)

  • Nr. 16729 images (plate size 20x20 cm), 9, Sept. 1965 - Nov. 1998 - List (excel rar file)

  • Nr. 1087 objective prism plates (size 20x20 cm), , Jul. 1966 - March 1997

THE SCHMIDT 50/40 cm ARCHIVE (INAF OAPd)

  • Nr. 18411 images (films, 10 cm diameter), 1958 - 1992

  • Nr. 2006, objective prism (films, 10 cm diameter), 1958 - 1992

THE ASIAGO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE QUERY

http://dipastro.pd.astro.it/asiago/