Abstract Title: *
NEW CAPABILITIES OF THE SOFTWARE TO SUPPORT DIGITIZATION OF
ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES

Authors: *
Nikolay Kirov(1) and Milcho Tsvetkov(2, 3)

Institution: *
(1) Computer Science Department, New Bulgarian University, 1618 Sofia, Bulgaria 
(2) Astronomical Institute with National Astronomical Observatory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1784 Sofia,
Bulgaria
(3) Institute of Mathematics and Informatics,, Bulgarian Academy Sciences, 1113 Sofia,
Bulgaria

Preferred format: *
Oral

Abstract Text: *
In this article, we announce improvements to two
applications for digitizing astronomical photographic plates and developing a new one (Kirov at
all. 2012). In the software for creating the header of fits file using the data from WFPDB
(http://wfpdb.org/) we add feature for processing data for multiexposure plates. A new
functionality of application for updating fits header allow us to complete fits header for fits files
obtained from ImageMagic application. The development of virtual observatories has prompted
us to realize a converter of fits header to GAVO (http://www.g-vo.org/) standard. N. Kirov, M.
Tsvetkov, K. Tsvetkova, Software Tools for Digitization of Astronomical Photographic Plates,
Serdica Journal of Computing, 6 (1), (2012), 67-76.