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The Design and Development of the GALAXY Machine
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
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The requirement for a machine of the GALAXY type arose from the large amount of information made available by the photographic plates from Schmidt telescopes. Even a small telescope of this type will produce many thousands of well-defined images per square degree on a single plate. Previously only a few selected images could be measured for position or magnitude in order to keep pace with the production of plates.
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- Part III. Automated Measuring Equipment
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 11: Automation in Optical Astrophysics , 1971 , pp. 103 - 108
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- Copyright © Royal Observatory 1971
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