Description of the ESO Clichotheque Database
Table name: ESO_CLICHOTHEQUE
Records: 45289
Description: The log book of spectroscopic plates obtained at ESO
telescopes until 1984. This log is probably incomplete. The plates
themselves have been given to the observers and no copy is kept at ESO.
Unfortunately, there is no possibilty to provide the current
affiliation or the address of the plate owner.
You can query the
ESO Clichotheque with a form.
- ra
- Right Ascension J2000
- dec
- Declination J2000
- observer
- Name of the observer
- instr
- Instrument:
- B
- RV Cass.
- E
- description not yet available
- F
- Coudé camera 1
- G
-
- H
- description not yet available
- J
- description not yet available
- L
- description not yet available
- P
- description not yet available
- plate_id
- Serial number: identification of the plate
in the spectrograph of photo series.
- tstart
- U.T. of the beginning of exposure
- exptime
- Exposure time
- target
- Identification of the object
- prog
- Program of the observation:
Please note that there are several
field entries without description, see below for a
complete list of distinct program
field values.
- RV
- Radial velocity for standard stars
- ST
- Spectral type standard stars
- LMC
- Large Magellanic Cloud
- SMC
- Small Magellanic Cloud
- NOVA
- Novae
- SNOV
- Supernovae
- EW
- Equivalnet width standard stars
- Z
- Zeeman spectra
Distinct values
of the program field:
B V 1 2944 4756 7 8 9 AHLI AP B2EP BE
BE BEP BID BIDE BOND BW CAL CARB COMP COMT CS DEF
E EBSB ECLB EGG EGGE EW FAST FEAS GNM H2 HB HCST
HVC I.JJ IC1 IC3 IC6 KDEF KREM LMC LMCX M7 MANF MK
MKST NEB* NO NOVA NP OBN OSTA PLAN PN POP2 RADV ROCA
ROT ROTS ROTV RUST RV RVP RVS RVSC RVSS RVST RVZ S
S2 SB SB2 SBEB SBS SCO1 SMC SMCX SNOV SP SPST SRVS
ST STEW STRO SYMB TEST THE TS V VAR VOIG VP VR
VROT VRS6 VRST W WD18 WD3 X XRAY XZ Z ZEE ZEMN
ZIMN
- band
- Colour
Please note that there's one
object
with colour denoted as »1« and one
object
with colour denoted as »=«
in the clichotheque.
- B
- Blue (photographic)
- V
- Visual
- R
- Red
- C
- I
- P
- mag
- Magnitude
- sp
- Spectral Type
Coded as
- 1 letter and 1 decimal(eg. B4)
- a decimal of spectral type or a letter for commentary (eg.
A4M, G81)
- luminosity class 1 to 5
- coord_flag
- Nature of coordinates:
- 0
- No comment
- 1
- Approximate coord. (cluster, galaxy, ...
- 2
- Variable coord. (planets, comets ...)
- img_tube
- Image Tube:
- 0
- no tube
- 1
- ITT F 4708
- 2
- unkown
- emuls
- Emulsion
If you take a look at the list of emulsion entries, you will see
that not all of the values make sense so be carefull when querying this
field:
2AO 092-2 098 098-2 098-4 09802 09804 0982-
103AD 103AE 103AF 127 127-4 12704 12705 1AO
1N 1Z 21O 2A/ 2A0 2AD 2AF 2AG
2AO 2AOB 311 31J 3AF 3AJ 3AJ 3AO
3AOJ 4( 4N 4N AJ AO AO IAO
ILFG5 ILFL4 IMDTX IN IN?TX INDTX K-139 OAJ
SO645 UNDTX
- sens
- Sensitization
Please note that not all of the
sensitization fields in the database seem to be correct. See this
list of distinct entries:
!, 0, 2, A, B, C, D, F, G, N, S, W.
- A
- Ammonia
- B
- Baked
- W
- Cold Water
- F
- Flashed
- disp
- Angstrom/mm.
For photography: scale in arcsec per mm
- widening
- Height of the spectrum on the plate in hundredth of mm
- sp_num
- Letter or number for identification
spectra (several spectra on the same plate)
Quality
- sp_dens
- Quality flag of spectrum density
Please note that there's one
object
with spectrum density denoted as »6« and one
object
with spectrum density denoted as »7«
in the clichotheque.
- A
- description not yet available
- B
- description not yet available
- D
- description not yet available
- F
- description not yet available
- G
- description not yet available
- N
- Flag absent or unusable
- O
- description not yet available
- P
- description not yet available
- U
- description not yet available
- W
- description not yet available
- focus
- Quality flag of focus
Please note that there's one
object
with a focus coding of »7« in the
database.
- A
- description not yet available
- B
- description not yet available
- D
- description not yet available
- F
- description not yet available
- G
- description not yet available
- N
- Flag absent or unusable
- P
- description not yet available
- W
- description not yet available
- wvlen_comp
- Quality flag of wavelength comparison
Please note that there are several
objects
with a wavelength comparison coding of »7« and several
objects
with a wavelength comparison coding of »/«in the
database.
- A
- description not yet available
- B
- description not yet available
- D
- description not yet available
- G
- description not yet available
- N
- Flag absent or unusable
- P
- description not yet available
- S
- description not yet available
- W
- description not yet available
- ph_cal
- Quality flag of photometric calibration
Please note that there are several
objects
with photometric calibration denoted as »7«, one
object
with photometric calibration denoted as »9« and two
objects
with photometric calibration denoted as »]«
in the clichotheque.
- A
- description not yet available
- D
- description not yet available
- G
- description not yet available
- N
- Flag absent or unusable
- P
- description not yet available
- W
- description not yet available
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Last update: Jul 9, 1996