Sentences with phrase «sky survey photographic»

These dark nebulae were found from visual inspection of the Palomar Sky Survey photographic plates.

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Achieving this goal required a huge step up from the 1950s - era Palomar Sky Survey, whose photographic plates have guided astronomers to celestial curiosities for decades.

This color image is based on data coming from 33 photographic plates taken between 1987 and 1995 through the Palomar Observatory's 48 - inch (1,2 - meter) Samuel Oschin Telescope as a part of the second National Geographic Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS II).

So Jewitt and Luu carried out two parallel surveys: they used the Palomar Observatory's Schmidt telescope equipped with conventional glass photographic plates to scan large areas of the sky for the very faintest objects, while also watching a narrow field of view in the plane of the planets for rare but slightly brighter objects using MIT's 1.3 - metre telescope fitted with a CCD.

The DASCH survey is based on thousands of photographic plates taken by Harvard astronomers between 1890 and 1989 as part of a regular survey of the northern sky.

This wide - field view of the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Surveysky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky SurveySky Survey 2.