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The Automated Plate Scanner (APS) at the University of Minnesota is a unique high speed ‘flying spot’ laser scanner. It uses a rotating prism to scan the laser spot and a beam splitter to produce a pair of spots which scan across a pair of plates. It scans a pair of plates in this mode in four hours with 1 micron repeatability. The APS is currently being used to scan the 936 pairs of plates comprising the Palomar Observatory-National Geographic Sky Survey. The resultant dataset will be used to produce a catalog of a billion stellar objects and several million galaxies. This catalog will be publicly available and we have undertaken the support for an on-line version which will be available to the astronomical community over the Internet. A summary of the catalog contents is given below.
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Pennington, R.L., Humphreys, R.M., Odewahn, S.C., Zumach, W.A., Stockwell, E.B. (1992). The Automated Plate Scanner Catalog of the Palomar Sky Survey. In: MacGillivray, H.T., Thomson, E.B. (eds) Digitised Optical Sky Surveys. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 174. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2472-0_11
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