Abstract Title: *
THE SIMEIZ PLATE COLLECTION OF THE ODESSA ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY

Authors: *
Svitlana Kashuba1, Natalya Bazyey1, Milcho Tsvetkov2,3, Elena Isaeva1 and 
Valentina Golovnya4 

Institution: *
1 Astronomical 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 

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poster presentation

Abstract Text: *
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.