Plate catalogs of Golosiiv Plate Archive. Towards Ukrainian Virtual Observatory

Tatyana Sergeeva¹, Lyudmila Pakuliak¹, Valentina Golovnya¹, Lyubov Kizyun¹, Svetlana Shatokhina¹, Olena Yizhakevych¹, Aleksandr Sergeev²

¹Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 27 Akademika Zabolotnoho St., 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine, sergeeva@mao.kiev.ua

²Center of Astronomical and Medico-Ecological Researches, 31 Akademika Zabolotnoho St., 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine, sergeev@terskol.com

We have finished preparation of digital catalogs of 26000 direct plates of Golosiiv Plate Archive (GPA). There are three kinds of its on-line representation. One of them is the list of the plates with all available information about them from log-books. These catalogs have been prepared for each telescope and have different formats of data. Due to the completeness of its data we can efficiently search plates to define orbital elements for such Solar System bodies as Near Earth Objects and planets' satellites. The catalogs are available on MAO NAS home page (www.mao.kiev.ua/ast/).

Another form of representation is a standard format accepted for the Wide-Field Plate Database (WFPDB), which represents the largest archives of the world astronomical observatories. Catalogs have been transformed to this format and integrated to WFPDB (www.skyarchive.org).

Third kind of representation is designed to provide the high efficiency of work with digital plate archive. The special database DBGPA has been created for such purpose (http://proxy.mao.kiev.ua/ardb/index.php) (Pakuliak L., this meeting). On-line access to database is provided on inquiry.

The information about the whole plate collection and methods of its preparing as segment of Ukrainian Virtual Observatory will be reported.