Kvistaberg Observatory: The Schmidt Archive

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:
  1. Right Ascension: hours
  2. Right Ascension: minutes
  3. Declination: degrees
  4. Declination: minutes
  5. Date: year, month, day
  6. Local sidereal time, start: hours, minutes
  7. Local sidereal time, end: hours, minutes
  8. Plate number
  9. Plate emulsion
  10. P = 7° prism, G = P+gitter
  11. Observer
  12. Object
  13. 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