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The UK Schmidt Telescope has taken several thousand photographs especially on fine grain Eastman Kodak IIIa-J and IIIa-F emulsions (see Cannon, 1984) which were hypersensitised before exposure in the telescope to improve their ability to record very faint signals.
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Hadley, B.W. (1984). Enhancement of Faint Images from UK Schmidt Telescope Plates. In: Capaccioli, M. (eds) Astronomy with Schmidt-Type Telescopes. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 110. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6387-0_7
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