Astrophotography

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

   PDF

2. Review of Astronomical Photography

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

      PDF

   2. The Age of the Specialist in Astronomical Photography

      • D. Malin

      Pages 2-20

3. Photographic Emulsions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

      PDF

   2. Stages of Photographic Development

      • R. Budell

      Pages 22-27

   3. Microspots on Spectroscopic Emulsions — An Update

      • A. R. Good

      Pages 28-33

   4. Automatic Grid Processing of Large Photographic Plates

      • B. Dumoulin, J. Québatte, R. M. West

      Pages 34-37

   5. Astronomical Tests of FAE Processing

      • R. Ziener

      Pages 38-39

4. Hypersensitization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

      PDF

   2. Hypersensitization of Kodak IN Emulsions at the Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory

      • V. Tsintsarov, Ts. Georgiev, M. Tsvetkov, B. Zh. Kovatchev, M. Panov

      Pages 42-46

   3. Hydrogen Hypering at Tesca

      • J.-L. Heudier, C. Labeyrie, T. Lavergé

      Pages 47-48

   4. Temperature Influence on Hydrogen Treatment of Kodak IIa-O and 103a-O Plates

      • O. Zichová, J. Zicha, V. I. Tsintsarov, L. Kh. Iliev, Ts. B. Georgiev

      Pages 49-55

   5. Spectral Sensitivities of Hypersensitized Emulsions

      • T. Aoki, T. Watanabe

      Pages 56-60

   6. Desensitization of Hypersensitized IIIa-J Plates by Exposure to Ambient Air

      • D. Engels, K. P. Schröder

      Pages 61-62

5. Calibration and Sensitometry

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

      PDF

   2. Fitting Procedures for the Characteristic Curve

      • H. Lehmann, W. Häupl

      Pages 64-67

   3. Calibration Problems on Schmidt Plates

      • R. Ziener

      Pages 68-70

   4. New Emulsions and Sensitometry

      • A. Maury

      Pages 71-76

   5. Internal Calibration of Stellar Magnitudes

      • D. Hömberg

      Pages 77-82

   6. A Physically Founded Analytical Representation of the Characteristic Curve

      • E. Gerth

      Pages 83-90

This volume contains the proceedings of the workshop "Astrophotography 87", which was held in Jena, April 21-24, 1987. The workshop was organized by the Central Institute of Astrophysics of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic and is the latest in a series devoted to the problems of photography in astronomy. The previous workshops, which have taken place every three years, were held in Edinburgh (1984), Nice (1981) and Geneva (1978). For telescopes with large fields of view, in particular Schmidt telescopes, photographic plates are the only suitable radiation receiver. Thus the effi­ ciency of the photographic plate determines the quality of the observation. The treatment of the plates in the photographic laboratory is also very im­ portant. Additional factors affecting the scientific results are the measuring machines and the methods of interpretation. All these topics were discussed in the workshop by the 62 participants (26 from the GDR and 36 from 13 other countries. Thanks go to David Malin, the chairman of the working group "Astropho­ tography" of the International Astronomical Union, for writing an introduc­ tory article for the proceedings. I am grateful to all participants who pre­ sented papers during the workshop for sending in their manuscripts on time. Poster papers are arranged among the other papers according to the topics they treat. All participants also wish to express their thanks to Springer­ Verlag for publishing the proceedings.

• Astrometry
• Observatories
• Redshift
• image processing
• photography
• quasar

• Karl-Schwarzschild-Observatorium, Zentralinstitut für Astrophysik der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Tautenburg, Deutschland

  Siegfried Marx

Policies and ethics