The archive consists of 3083 glass plates and films obtained between 1963 and 1999. (very few after 1995)
The epoch is 1950.0.
The few exposures made on films are found in a separate file.
The first asteroids, 1938UA and 546 Merodias, were observed in 1973. In
1999 a CCD camera was installed in the Schmidt telescope
and the
Uppsala DLR Asteroid Survey (UDAS) started.
Information in the data base
Position:
- Right Ascension: hours
- Right Ascension: minutes
- Declination: degrees
- Declination: minutes
- Date: year, month, day
- Local sidereal time, start: hours, minutes
- Local sidereal time, end: hours, minutes
- Plate number
- Plate emulsion
- P = 7° prism, G = P+gitter
- Observer
- Object
- Comments (in Swedish): object/area, filter, exposure time, misc.
NPS= North Polar Sequence
Filters: UG2 = U, BG37+GG13 = B, GG14 = V, etc
01 47 +63 11 19630914 2045 2130 1 2A-O WT EPS CAS. TEST UTAN KORRGLAS
05 50 +32 34 19641214 0418 0426 80 2A-O WT M37 BG37+GG13
02 18 +56 54 19651007 2200 2204 179 2A-O P WT H+XPERS TEST
08 12 +74 38 19660315 0855 0906 278 2A-O G WT SA4 BG37+GG13 EXP:2M+8M
08 12 +74 38 19670911 2208 2210 479 2A-O WT SA4 BG37+GG13 EXP:10,20,40,40,20,10S
00 43 +14 00 19811117 0126 0146 2512 098-04 OJA KOMET SLAUGHTER-BURNHAM GG495 EXP:20M. RACINE
12 56 +27 38 19840322 1054 1104 2662 103A-G KIN NGC4807 +NGC4853 GG14 EXP:10M. EXP MED MASK
Further information on individual plates may be obtained from: C-I Lagerkvist