The Ultimate Sharper Image Catalog

Author: Aller, Jay

Published in: Engineering and Science, Volume 57, Number 2, 1994, pp. 31-35

Part of: Engineering and Science, Volume 57:2, Winter 1994

Item Category: Feature Articles

Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:57.2.Aller

Abstract

Palomar Observatory is photographing the entire Northern Hemisphere sky. The results, when analyzed by a program called SKICAT, will produce a computerized catalog containing roughly three times as many objects as the first Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, done in the 1950s.

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