Scans of plates kept at Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl. They
were obtained at location, at the German-Spanish Astronomical Center
(Calar Alto Observatory), Spain, and at La Silla, Chile. The plates
cover a time span between 1880 and 1999.
Specifically, HDAP is essentially complete for the plates taken with
the Bruce telescope, the Walz reflector, and Wolf's Doppelastrograph
at both the original location in Heidelberg and its later home on
Königstuhl.
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.
The Wide-Field Plate Database (WFPDB_) contains the descriptive information
for the astronomical wide-field (>1°) photographic observations stored in
numerous archives all over the world. The total number of these
observations, obtained since the end of the 19th century with more
then 200 instruments (telescopes) is about 2 550 000 from 509 archives.
The WFPDB is continually being updated, providing currently access to the
information for about 640 000 plates from 117 plate archives (30% of the
estimated total number of wide-field plates)
.. _WFPDB: http://www.skyarchive.org/