Archives of Photographic PLates for Astronomical USE

APPLAUSE DR3s (applause_dr3s)

Description

The APPLAUSE DR3s contains metadata about the Solar photographic plates of the Einsteinturm and data extracted from the digitzed plates.

The metadata characterizing observation and instrument are collected in table solarplate, the scan process in table scan.

Tables level0, level1 and level2 contain the data resulting from the different processing applied.

  • level 0

    is the result of converting the scan (tiff format, 8bit ) into a photographic positive image

  • level 1

    processing results in a resampled 16bit image, calibrated and with standard solar orientation

  • level 2

    contains the limb-darkening corrected full-disk with enhanced contrast

For a more detailed description of the processing and its results see: Pal, P., et al. , Solar Observatory Einstein Tower — Data Release of the Digitized Solar Full-disk Photographic Plate Archive.

Attribution

If you have made substantial use of the data provided by APPLAUSE DR3, kindly include this acknowledgement

Funding for APPLAUSE has been provided by DFG (German Research Foundation, Grant), Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), Dr. Remeis Sternwarte Bamberg (University Nuernberg/Erlangen), the Hamburger Sternwarte (University of Hamburg) and Tartu Observatory. Plate material also has been made available from Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg.

The solar plates from the Einsteinturm in Potsdam are a contribution of the AIP"s Solar Physics Section with support by the European Commission"s Horizon 2020 Program under grant agreements 824064 (ESCAPE – European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle physics ESFRI research infrastructures) and 824135 (SOLARNET – Integrating High Resolution Solar Physics)

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