The final batch of UK Schmidt Film from the Royal Observatory Edinburgh has arrived and I am selling some of the double-ups. Some of this film was not previously listed. My previous listing became a bit piece-meal and hard to follow, so the details have been consolidated into two documents: Part A and Part B ... it was too big for one listing.
The film on offer is negative transparency film that has been copied from glass plates taken at the UK Schmidt Telescope, Siding Springs NSW in the 1980s. The film was saved from being discarded from the Royal Observatory Film Library as they went digital.
Own a bit of history!
The film covers a field of view 5 degrees x 5 degrees, is 34cm x 34cm, and contains objects to Mag. 23 (2 million times fainter than the human eye can see). The quality is brilliant, although a small quantity of the film is marked "Reject", mostly because of satellite trails and some ghost images from reflections of bright objects within the telescopes optics.