The Automated Plate Scanner Catalog of the Palomar Sky Survey

该奖项为明尼苏达大学自动车牌扫描仪这一独特设备的持续开发和运营提供了资金。该设备高速数字化对板，如帕洛马巡天的那些，允许复杂的功能，如天体测量，光度测定，和模式识别。在未来三年内，第一次帕洛马巡天的数字化工作将完成，并在网上向天文界提供，第二次帕洛马巡天的工作将开始，提供重要的比较数据。

This award funds continuing development and operation of a unique facility, the University of Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner. This device digitizes, at high speed, pairs of plates, such as those of the Palomar Sky Survey, permitting sophisticated func- tions such as astrometry, photometry, and pattern recognition. In the next three years, digitization of the first Palomar Sky survey will be completed and made available, on line, to the astronomical community, and work will be started on the second Palomar survey, providing important comparison data.