Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Scanning the Harvard Observatory Plate Stacks Publications

Popular Articles

This July 10, 2007 article in The New York Times by George Johnson describes our project. (388,151-byte PDF file)
It was followed by this sometimes-interesting discussion on Slashdot.

Scientific Articles

R. J. Simcoe, J. E. Grindlay, E. J. Los, A. Doane, S. G. Laycock, D. J. Mink, G. Champine, A. Sliski, 2006. "An ultrahigh-speed digitizer for the Harvard College Observatory astronomical plates", in Applications of Digital Image Processing XXIX, edited by Andrew G. Tescher, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6312 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2006) 631217.

Mink, D.; Doane, A.; Simcoe, R.; Los, E.; Grindlay, J., 2005. "The Harvard Plate Scanning Project" in Virtual Observatory: Plate Content Digitization, Archive Mining and Image Sequence Processing, iAstro workshop, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2005 proceedings, Sophia: Heron Press Ltd., 2006. [PDF Paper]