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THE SIMEIZ PLATE COLLECTION OF THE ODESSA ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY

Authors: *
Svitlana Kashuba1, Natalya Bazyey1, MilchoTsvetkov2,3, Elena Isaeva1 and Valentina
Golovnya4

Institution: *
1Astronomical Observatory of Odessa National University, 65014 Odessa, Ukraine

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poster presentation

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THE SIMEIZ PLATE COLLECTION OF THE ODESSA ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY
Svitlana Kashuba1, Natalya Bazyey1, MilchoTsvetkov2,3, Elena Isaeva1 and Valentina
Golovnya4 1Astronomical Observatory of Odessa National University, 65014 Odessa, Ukraine 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 4 Main Astronomical Observatory National Academy of Sciences of
Ukraine, 03143 Kiev, Ukraine (Poster)

Abstract:
 Here we describe the Simeiz observatory astronomical plate archive, which is now a part of the
Odessa Astrophotonegative Collection. The archive contains about 10000 plates received
during the period 1909-1953 with the 2x120 mm astrograph, which was originally installed in
1908. Among the Simeiz archive there are plates taken also at the Kitab International Longitude
Station (Uzbekistan) during the World War II where the astronomers from Simeiz were
evacuated. The Simeiz plate archive contains observations of small bodies of the Solar system
(asteroids), planets and their satellites. Several hundred plates contain images of various
objects and phenomena: comets and variable stars, lunar eclipses, etc. At the present time a
complete set of plates (including plates obtained in Kitab) are stored in the Odessa
Astronomical Observatory at the Mayaki astronomical station in comparatively good conditions.
In the period 2014 – 2015 a part of the archive was digitized using the flatbed scanner EPSON
Perfection V700. Recently we started work on processing the metadata of the plate envelopes
in the machine-readable catalogue compatible with the IVO-WFPDB standards.