Hello all,
I received this appeal via a museums listserv I belong to but thought it was sensible to post it on here.
Kiara
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Kiara King
Ballast Trust Archivist
www.ballasttrust.org.uk
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AN APPEAL: THE HEWITT CAMERA PLATE ARCHIVE
Some of you may have seen the following before, for which my
apologies, but hopefully, this is new to you and, hopefully again,
youcan help.
The Hewitt Camera Plate Archive comprises approximately 11,000
photographic plates taken from various locations within the UK and in
Australia over a period of almost 30 years from approximately 1960 to
1990. Each plate covers a 10 degree field of view taken with a Schmidt
camera. The plates were originally used to measure the orbits of
satellites to infer information about the Earth's gravitational field.
However, in the process much information was obtained on variable
stars, typically to about agnitude 11 but occasionally to mag 13.
Following the transfer of the Royal Greenwich Observatory from
Herstmonceux, to Cambridge in the early 1990's the Crayford Manor
House Astronomical Society became the custodians of the Archive on
behalf of the BAA VSS.
Sadly, the local council have decreed that they can no longer house
the Archive and therefore they are looking for a new home for it. If
any individual or group is interested in taking the Archive they
should first contact the VSS Director : [log in to unmask]
Sadly, the only help offered so far has been to store the archive but
that won't be available until November at least and we have now been
given a deadline by the Council of the end of August 2012.
Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Roger
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Roger Pickard, Director BAA VSS
Section Website: http://www.britastro.org/vss/
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