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Table 1

Digitised plate archives in APPLAUSE DR4.

Archive Archive name Institute Period Plates Scans Processed Pixel scale
ID (instrument) scans (arcsec)
1 Zeiss Triplet (P) AIP 1909–1938 4921 4915 2097 1.46 … 12.5
2 Carte du Ciel (P) AIP 1893–1924 979 953 0
3 Great Schmidt Camera (P) AIP 1952–1970 508 508 413 0.38, 1.27
4 Small Schmidt Camera (P) AIP 1949–1967 113 101 14 2.93
5 Ross Camera (P) AIP 1956–1956 64 62 59 2.37
6 Einstein Turm Solar Plates(a) (P) AIP 1943–1991 3613 3613 3613
101 Lippert-Astrograph (HH) HS 1912–1972 8750 13764 11289 0.63 … 1.44
102 Grosser Schmidt-Spiegel (HH) HS 1954–1975 5323 7463 5146 0.91
103 1m-Spiegelteleskop (HH) HS 1911–1972 7643 7538 5409 0.74
104 HSS (Calar Alto) HS 1980–1998 3255 4388 2644 0.91
105 AG-Teleskop (Bonn) HS 1926–1958 754 1454 1309 1.06
106 AG-Teleskop (HH) HS 1927–1973 3529 7019 6848 1.06
107 Doppel-Reflektor (HH) HS 1934–1957 1642 2055 1897 0.73
108 ESO telescopes (La Silla) HS 1974–1998 2099 2713 918 0.18 … 0.71
109 Grosser Refraktor (HH) HS 1914–1985 2602 2757 938 0.24 … 15.6
110 Kleiner Schmidt-Spiegel II (HH) HS 1952–1979 1566 1152 852 3.47
111 Schmidtsches Spiegelteleskop (HH) HS 1931–1968 1746 1985 933 3.51
202 Metcalf Telescope (South Africa) DROB 1963–1972 2718 2705 2701 1.77
203 BSSP (South Africa) DROB 1963–1970 12565 12513 12503 3.57
204 BSSP (New Zealand) DROB 1967–1976 5266 5243 5242 3.58
205 BSSP (Argentina) DROB 1969–1972 870 824 823 3.52
206 Zeiss Objective (South Africa) DROB 1964–1970 694 690 676 8.66
207 Ross B Camera (South Africa) DROB 1964–1966 698 696 694 4.17
208 BNSP Astrograph DROB 1912–1968 18865 17036 15993 1.62 … 17.1
301 Tartu Old Observatory TO 1947–1988 2275 2275 2227 3.65 … 10.8
401 Tautenburg Schmidt Telescope TLS 1960–1998 4101 20505 19192 0.51
501 Zeiss Double Astrograph VO 1951–1999 544 544 532 1.62

Notes. The abbreviations denote: AIP = Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, Potsdam; HS = Hamburg Observatory; DROB = Dr. Remeis Observatory, Bamberg; TO = Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu, Estonia; TLS = Thuringian State Observatory; VO = Vatican Observatory; BSSP = Bamberg Southern Sky Patrol; BNSP = Bamberg Northern Sky Patrol; HSS = Hamburger Schmidt-Spiegel. (a)Separate data release DR3s.

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