Sentences with phrase «photographic glass plates»

When retired astronomer Holger Pedersen visited a basement kitchen in the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen to brew a pot of tea, he discovered an unanticipated treasure trove — hundreds of photographic glass plates imprinted with astronomy observations, offering a unique view of the sky from decades long past.

DSS images are from scanned photographic glass plates.

Not exact matches

Each plate was a 14 - inch square of glass with photographic emulsion painted on the back.

In the 1880s inventor George Eastman hit upon an ingenious idea for making photographic film flexible so it could be stored in compact canisters instead of on heavy, fragile glass plates.

The photographs were recorded on three type of glass photographic plates, sensitive to blue - green, red and near - infrared light.

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.

Sipp, a printmaker, is creating the illustrations by drawing on glass and then using a photographic process to make etching plates from the drawings, so he can do limited - edition prints.

Suzette Bross» portraits in her solo exhibition, For the Glass, transform the flatbed scanner into a contemporary version of the photographic plate.

Some dude named Rick Norsigian was yard sale shopping in California about 10 years back and bought two boxes of glass photographic plates.