GAVO's historical photographic plate archive (GHHPA) is a
collection of various digitized historical photographic
plates. It currently exposes:
* the scans of plates of selected Kapteyn special fields obtained
at Potsdam
* the Palomar-Leiden Trojan surveys, 1960-1977,
* a collection of plates obtained at Boyden Station, South Africa,
kept at various German observatories.
Other plate collections kept by GAVO include the Heidelberg
Digitized Astronomical Plates HDAP,
ivo://org.gavo.dc/lswscans/res/positions/siap, and the APPLAUSE
database from Potsdam.
This is a view of the dust maps in the five orders, generated by
splitting the larger pixels from the higher orders into HEALPixes of
order 10. This means, in particular, that the spatial resolution for
all pixels with original_order!=10. Use this for convenient joins to
other tables.
This services provides 1D spectra from DR5 of LAMOST (Large Sky Area
Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope) through SSAP;
data is served both in VO-standard SDM and, via datalink, the original
SDSS-inspired FITS described in
http://dr5.lamost.org/doc/data-production-description .
We give continuous night and day light measurements at all natural
outdoor light levels by a network of low-cost lightmeters. Developed
to start simple, global continuous high cadence monitoring of night
sky brightness and artificial night sky brightening (light pollution)
in 2009. The lightmeter network is a project of the Thüringer
Landessternwarte, Tautenburg, Germany and the Kuffner-Sternwarte
society at the Kuffner-Observatory, Vienna, Austria.
It started as part of the Dark Skies Awareness cornerstone of the
International Year of Astronomy.
This collection includes optical monitorings of gravitationally lensed
quasars. The frames can be used to make light curves of quasar images
and field objects. From quasar light curves, one may measure time
delays and flux ratios, analyse variability and chromaticity, etc.
These direct analyses/measurements are basic tools for different
astrophysical studies, e.g., expansion rate of the Universe, mechanism
of intrinsic variability in quasars, accretion disk structure,
supermassive black holes, dark halos of galaxies (dust, collapsed dark
matter, smoothly distributed dark matter,...)
The LOFAR Two Meter Sky Survey LoTSS DR2
(:bibcode:`2022A&A...659A...1S`) obtained radio data from 27% of the
northern sky between 120 and 168 MHz in the year 2014 through 2020. This
service publishes polarization spectra of extragalactic radio sources
(radio galaxies and blazars) and the rotation measures derived from them.
We also give redshifts for all sources. The data has a spatial resolution
of 20 arcsec.