Archives of Photographic PLates for Astronomical USE

Objects in the APPLAUSE Database

Select object using AID or DOI

Objects in Plate Archive are sorted according to their types as plates, logbooks, notes and envelopes.

Each object (Cultural Heritage Object) has an unique Applause Identifier (AID) stored in corresponding table column as shown below.

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) can be constructed in the following way: doi:10.1876/plate/{AID}.

Type Table AID column Example AID Example DOI
Plates plate plate_aid dr.4/plates/208_77001 https://doi.org/10.17876/plate/dr.4/plates/208_77001
Logbooks logbook logbook_aid dr.3/logbooks/101_53 https://doi.org/10.17876/plate/dr.3/logbooks/101_53
Observer notes logbook logbook_aid dr.3/notes/101_12 https://doi.org/10.17876/plate/dr.3/notes/101_12
Envelopes logpage logpage_aid dr.4/envelopes/208_97474 https://doi.org/10.17876/plate/dr.4/envelopes/208_97474

Browse through archives

Besides the direct access of one object it is also possible to browse through all objects within an archive.

Choose an archive and the object type and click on a corresponding link in the table below.

Archive Institute # plates # logbooks # notes # envelopes
Zeiss Triplet (Potsdam) Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP) 4921 4 7 135
Carte du Ciel (Potsdam) Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP) 979
Great Schmidt Camera (Potsdam) Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP) 508 3 512
Small Schmidt Camera (Potsdam) Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP) 113 2 113
Ross Camera (Potsdam) Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP) 64 64
Einstein Turm Solar Plates Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP) 3613
Lippert-Astrograph (Hamburg) Hamburger Sternwarte 8750 5 41 8561
Grosser Schmidt-Spiegel (Hamburg) Hamburger Sternwarte 5323 2 19 5172
1m-Spiegelteleskop (Hamburg) Hamburger Sternwarte 7643 6 65 5583
Hamburger Schmidt-Spiegel (Calar Alto) Hamburger Sternwarte 3255 9 3010
AG-Teleskop (Bonn) Hamburger Sternwarte 754 12 722
AG-Teleskop (Hamburg) Hamburger Sternwarte 3529 2 4 3568
Doppel-Reflektor (Hamburg) Hamburger Sternwarte 1642 1455
ESO telescopes (La Silla) Hamburger Sternwarte 2099 1159
Grosser Refraktor (Hamburg) Hamburger Sternwarte 2602 3 18 2258
Kleiner Schmidt-Spiegel II (Hamburg) Hamburger Sternwarte 1566 4 744
Schmidtsches Spiegelteleskop (Hamburg) Hamburger Sternwarte 1746 9 1729
Metcalf Telescope (South Africa) Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte, Bamberg 2718 2708
Bamberg Southern Sky Patrol (South Africa) Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte, Bamberg 12565 12514
Bamberg Southern Sky Patrol (New Zealand) Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte, Bamberg 5266 5243
Bamberg Southern Sky Patrol (Argentina) Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte, Bamberg 870 824
Zeiss Objective (South Africa) Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte, Bamberg 694 690
Ross B Camera (South Africa) Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte, Bamberg 698 696
Tartu Old Observatory Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu, Estonia 2275
Tautenburg Schmidt Telescope Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg 4101 4095
Zeiss Double Astrograph Vatican Observatory 544
Astrograph, Bamberg Northern Sky Patrol Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte, Bamberg 18865 4 16526