A trip back in time

[snowyskiesau]

Thought this might be of interest. It's about the plan to digitise nearly 100 years worth of astronomy photographs currently at Harvard.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/science/10astro.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[duncan]

Very interesting reading. Hope they can go ahead and do it. Just imagine being able to see all those photograghs. Thanks for the link.
Cheers,
Duncan:thumbsup:

[astroron]

Fantastic story, I hope they get the money to finish the job.

[snowyskiesau]

I hope they get this done before it's all lost. As the article says, they have 500,000 plates 'plus or minus 100,000' with no idea where the missing plates are.