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Boyden Station, Maselspoort South Africa between 1965 and 1970. During
that time, astronomers from Bamberg, Heidelberg, Hamburg and Münster
took astronomical images there, with a focus on old star clusters, the
Magellanic clouds, and the southern milky way. This service provides
scans of the plates obtained.</description><source format="bibcode">1998IrAJ...25..129A</source><referenceURL>http://dc.g-vo.org/boydende/q/web/info</referenceURL><relationship><relationshipType>IsServedBy</relationshipType><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://org.gavo.dc/__system__/obscore/obscore">GAVO Data Center Obscore</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://org.gavo.dc/tap">GAVO Data Center TAP service</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://org.gavo.dc/hppunion/q/im">Historical Photographic Plate Image Archive</relatedResource></relationship></content><rights rightsURI="https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html">The Boyden Station ADH plate scans is licensed under the `Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License &lt;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/&gt;`_

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