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39 results for "DASCH"

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DASCH Research

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DASCH Publications on the ADS You can view a full list of publications that have used DASCH data on the ADS here. DASCH Presentations and Posters Lindsay Smith Zrull et al (2020), " Preserving Broken Astronomical Glass Plates", American Astronomical...

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Start searching the DASCH Plate Collection database using the instructions below.

About the DASCH Databases

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The DASCH project data is currently organized in three MySQL databases: the scanner database, the photometry database, and the auxscanner database. The scanner database contains the logbook information and keeps track of the scanning and processing of...

Scanning-releasing the full-sky-century database to DASCH for TDA
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This is the last stage of a NSF supported effort. The Digital Analysis of a Sky Century @ Harvard (DASCH) project is now fully ready with its hardware, software and personnel resource planning and full production scanning, processing and data distribution...

Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard

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Portion of plate B41215. (1910). A New Look at the Temporal Universe The goal of DASCH is to support the systematic study of the sky on 100 year time scales. To do this the DASCH team is working to digitize the majority of the Astronomical Photographic...

PHaEDRA Office Hours - Plate Numbers Complete!

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We will be celebrating the upcoming completion of the plate number phase of Star Notes, and we will have an intern from the Smithsonian's American Women's History Initiative as a guest speaker to talk about their work on the oral histories of the DASCH...

Former Staff of the Harvard Plate Stacks

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The Harvard Plate Stacks and the DASCH digitization project employed many different people over twenty years. Use the link below to view a list of everyone who worked on this endeavor. Since 2025, we have created individual staff profiles and preserved...

Alison Doane

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Alison Doane (1958-2017) was Martha Hazen's assistant beginning in 1983, later rising to the title of Assistant Curator, and finally Curator of Astronomical Photographs in 2001. Doane was instrumental in stewarding the collection into the 20th century...

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There are different ways to search different parts of our collection. If you are interested in exploring our plates and their historic jackets and learning about who used each plate, use our newest and largest database, StarGlass. If you would like to see...

Photometry Pipeline

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Read the following publications for a more throrough description of the photometry pipeline: Laycock, S. et. al, " Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard. II: Initial Photometry and Astrometry" Sumin Tang et al., " Improved Photometry for the DASCH...

Elijah Berk-Silverman

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Elijah Berk-Silverman is a Curatorial Assistant with the Harvard Plate Stacks, where he is a part of the team that works on the preservation and digitization of 19th and 20th-century astronomical glass plate photographs. He works on collections management...