Abstract
We report on an ongoing study based on blink-comparison of more than 5000 Bamberg Observatory Southern Sky Patrol Plates performed within a continuation of a student high school project (Jugend Forscht). After a detailed analyses and classification, 6 non-classified objects were identified as emulsion defects, 19 as asteroids, 37 as variable stars, and 6 as real OT-GRB candidates.
Highlights
In this paper we report on further results of an ongoing study based on extended blink-comparison of Bamberg Observatory Southern Sky Patrol Plates performed within a German high school student project (Jugend Forscht) in the last year (2011–2012)
The southern patrol was taken from the Boyden Observatory observing station in South Africa for variable star research
The past works in variable star research in Bamberg focused mostly on discoveries and classification of new variable stars
Summary
In this paper we report on further results of an ongoing study based on extended blink-comparison of Bamberg Observatory Southern Sky Patrol Plates performed within a German high school student project (Jugend Forscht) in the last year (2011–2012). The Bamberg Observatory (Bavaria, Germany) was deeply involved in variable star research in the past. The Bamberg Observatory photographic sky surveys (Hudec, 1999) were used to deliver observation data for these studies. The Bamberg plate archive contains 40 000 plates from Northern (18 000) and Southern (22 000) Surveys; the relevant time periods are 1928-1939 (North) and 1963– 1976 (South). The southern patrol was taken from the Boyden Observatory observing station in South Africa for variable star research. The past works in variable star research in Bamberg focused mostly on discoveries and classification of new variable stars. For more details on the motivation of the work and the related background, see Hudec et al, 2001
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