Photometry of digital images from the Golosiiv Plate Archive


Nataly Bondar',1 Aleksey Shlyapnikov1, Tatyana Sergeeva2, Alex Golovin1,2,3


1SRI ”Crimean Astrophysical Observatory”, 98409 Nauchny, the
Crimea, Ukraine, e-mail: bondar@krao.krimea.ua

2Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 27 Akademika Zabolotnoho St., 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine, e-mail: sergeeva@mao.kiev.ua

3Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University, Kyiv, Ukraine, e-mail: astronom_2003@mail.ru

 

The database DBGPA V2.0 of the Main Astronomical Observatory, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, is organized in the frame of collaboration with Sofia Sky Archive Data Center (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences). It is created basing on the structure of the Wide-Field Plate Database. The Internet access to this database allows to select photographic plates from  the Golosiiv Plate Archive for a certain astrophysical problem. The selected negatives were digitized. The procedure of plate scanning is described as well as formats used for a storage of scans and image processing. Photometric reductions of instrument data and accuracy estimations of results are provided with special programs for interaction with astronomical resources located in the International Virtual Observatory.