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A GALAXY plate measuring machine, similar to that constructed for the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, has been in use at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux, since late in 1972. The design and performance of the Edinburgh machine have already been reported; in this paper the current operational procedures at Herstmonceux, including minor modifications to the original design of plateholders, and also the planned enhancement of the system by installation of a NOVA 2/10 Control Computer, are described. An account is given of the main computer programmes which have been developed for data processing, and analysis, and some aspects of the performance of GALAXY in the measurement of astronomical photographs are discussed.
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Murray, C.A., Nicholson, W. (1975). The Use of the “Galaxy” Machine at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. In: De Jager, C., Nieuwenhuijzen, H. (eds) Image Processing Techniques in Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 54. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1881-4_20
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