Overview of the DASCH Photometry Pipeline (Poster abstract)

Volume 37 number 2 (2009)

Edward J. Los

Abstract

(Abstract only) DASCH is “Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard,” the effort to digitize approximately 520,000 astronomical plates in the Harvard College Observatory collection. This paper is an overview of the photometry pipeline which has generated over 400 million magnitude measurements from over 3,400 scanned plates.