Wide-Field Plate Database WFPDB Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors

1. Tsvetkov, M.K.
2. Stavrev, K.Y.
3. Tsvetkova, K.P.
4. Mutafov, A.S.
5. Semkov, E.H.
6. Kalaglarsky, D.

Published by

The GAVO DC team

Abstract

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/

Keywords

1. astrophotography
2. history-of-astronomy

Bibliographic source Bibcode

1995LNP...454..412T

See also HTML

http://dc.g-vo.org/wfpdb/q/cone/info

IVOA Identifier IVOID

ivo://org.gavo.dc/wfpdb/q/cone

Access

IVOA Cone Search SCS

For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://dc.g-vo.org/wfpdb/q/cone/scs.xml?
https://dc.g-vo.org/wfpdb/q/cone/scs.xml?

Web browser access HTML

http://skyarchive.org/

IVOA Table Access TAP

http://dc.g-vo.org/tap
https://dc.g-vo.org/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).