SMOKA Kiso Schmidt Plate Archive Search

Overview

Using SMOKA Kiso Schmidt Plate Archive Search, you can search Digitized plate data of Kiso schmidt telescope by Plate ID, Plate Size, a position (specified by R.A. and Dec (J2000) and Radius), DATE-OBS (observation date), Prism, Filter, Object Name, and Emulsion. This page provides the detailed information on input/output format of search/result page.

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Search Form Information

Input field format

Plate ID

The value of Plate ID is combined with the size and sequential 5 digit number of a plate.

Object Name

Object name extracted from OBSLog (Comets and Asteroids ONLY). There is a link to the OBSLog of each observation in the search result page.

Plate Size

The classification of plate size is as follows:

    L: 35.6 cm x 35.6 cm
    S: 24 cm x 24 cm
    D: 16 cm x 16 cm
    T: 10.8 cm x 8.3 cm

Unfortunately, only 'L' and 'S' sizes digitized plate data are available.

R.A. and Dec

The equatorial coordinates of the celestial region where you want to search.
A number of formats are accepted for the R.A. and Dec. Here are some examples:

            R.A.            Dec
        12h34m56.7s     -76d54m32.1s
        12h 34m 56.7s   -76d 54m 32.1s
        12h34m56s       -65d43m21s
        12h 34m 56s     -65d 43m 21s
        12h34.5m         54d32.1m
        12h 34m         +54d 32m
        12.5h            54.3d
        12h             +54d

        12h34m56.7      -76d54m32.1
        12h 34m 56.7    -76d 54m 32.1
        12h34m56        -65d43m21
        12h 34m 56      -65d 43m 21
        12h34.5          54d32.1
        12h 34.5         54d 32.1
        12h34           +54d32
        12h 34          +54d 32

        12:34:56.7      -76:54:32.1
        12:34:56         65:43:21
        12:34.5         +54:32.1

The string is interpreted as decimal degrees unless it includes a delimiter, 'h' or ':'.

       123.4             54.3
       123              -54

Spacing is not important. You can delimit the hours/degrees, minutes, and seconds with h/d, m, or colons(:). Without the delimiters, the value is interpreted as decimal degrees.

Radius

How far around the search position you would like to search, in arcminutes.
This field is ignored, when range operator is not used in R.A. or Dec field.

DATE-OBS (Observation Date)

The date of the observation in Universal Time (UT). The date can have any of the following formats:

      1975-04-25     (yyyy-mm-dd)

You can use a range operator; for example,

   expression                    search range
2000-12-15..2000-12-31      2000-12-15 0hUT <= (obs date/time) < 2000-12-31 24hUT
>=2001-01-01                2001-01-01 0hUT <= (obs date/time)
>2001-01-01                 2001-01-02 0hUT <= (obs date/time)
<=1998-06-30                                   (obs date/time) < 1998-06-30 24hUT
<1998-06-30                                    (obs date/time) < 1998-06-30  0hUT

If no range operator is used, the search range is as follows:

2000-12-15                  2000-12-15 0hUT <= (obs date/time) < 2000-12-15 24hUT

Prism: You can search for plates that use a specific prism.
Select NULL to search for plates without any prism.
None (the state where nothing is selected) indicates no prism is specified.

SMOKA Kiso Schmidt Plate Archive Search

Overview

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Input field format

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