Astrophotography

I Review of Astronomical Photography.- The Age of the Specialist in Astronomical Photography.- II Photographic Emulsions.- Stages of Photographic Development.- Microspots on Spectroscopic Emulsions - An Update.- Automatic Grid Processing of Large Photographic Plates.- Astronomical Tests of FAE Processing.- III Hypersensitization.- Hypersensitization of Kodak IN Emulsions at the Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory.- Hydrogen Hypering at Tesca.- Temperature Influence on Hydrogen Treatment of Kodak IIa-O and 103a-O Plates.- Spectral Sensitivities of Hypersensitized Emulsions.- Desensitization of Hypersensitized IIIa-J Plates by Exposure to Ambient Air.- IV Calibration and Sensitometry.- Fitting Procedures for the Characteristic Curve.- Calibration Problems on Schmidt Plates.- New Emulsions and Sensitometry.- Internal Calibratioin of Stellar Magnitudes.- A Physically Founded Analytical Representation of the Characteristic.- Photographic Calibration of Sunspot Equidensitograms.- On the Adaptive Procedure of Brightness Evaluation from the Characteristic Curves.- V Photographic Techniques.- A Two-Stage Masking Technique for Revealing High-Density Features in Astronomical Photographic Plates.- Atlas Copying On-Film.- Identification and Elimination of Plate Flaws in Copying.- On the Employment of Copies in Astrophotography.- The Superimposition of Many Plates.- A Special Method of Transferring Information on the Basis of Inner-Picture Development.- General Properties of Kodak Plates Used in Astronomy.- Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey - Photographic Procedures.- VI Measurement and Reduction.- A New XY Measuring Machine.- Planning an Autofocus System for PDS-Microdensitometers.- The ASAG Program Package for Image Processing.- Photometric Accuracy of an Adaptive Filtering Technique.- Two Digital Filtering Methods and the Spiral Structure of the M 31 Galaxy.- Spectral Classification at Low Dispersion.- Fast Astrometric Reduction at Tesca.- Astrometric Accuracy on