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DATACENTRES, DATABASES & CATALOGUES
Main actors in astronomy research in the country  There are 7 Research Institutes in the structure of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NAS of Ukraine), 2 Research Institutes in the structure of the Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sport of Ukraine (MESYS of Ukraine); 15 astronomical observatories and Departments in the structure of the Universities of the MESYS of Ukraine; 1 Private Astronomical Observatory play a main role in the development and teaching Astronomy in Ukraine.
 
The XPM Catalog  Absolute proper motions of 280 million stars distributed all over the sky without gaps in the magnitude range 10m < V <20m on the basis of combined data from 2MASS and USNO-A2.0 catalogues.
 
MAO NASU Plate Archive   Digital archive of MAO NAS of Ukraine (GPA) comprises data of about 26 thousands of direct photographic plates, obtained with 14 instruments in 9 observational sites, and more than 2000 digital images of different resolution available via GPA search pages.
 
Mykolaiv AO Plate Archive   Digital archive of Mykolaiv Aastronomical Observatory (MykAO) includes astronomical data obtained during observations with photo plates and CCD frames. The digitization of the archive is near its completion. Digitized images are available via a web browser and Aladin.
 
AO LNU Plate Archive   Astronomical Observatory of Lviv National University (AO LNU) is the owner of valuable archive that stores approximately 8 000 of photographic plates from 1939, including nearly 6 000 direct images of the northern sky. The archive is partly digitized and images are available via the joint search pages of AO LNU and MAO NASU.
 
IRA UTR-2 catalogue of RS   The very-low frequency sky survey of discrete sources has been obtained in the Institute of Radio Astronomy of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences (Kharkov, Ukraine) with the UTR-2 radio telescope at a number of the lowest frequencies used in contemporary radio astronomy within the range from 10 to 25 MHz.
 
Mykolaiv AO stellar catalogues   27 astrometric stellar catalogues of Mykolaiv Aastronomical Observatory (MykAO) in VOTable format are available for downloading
 
AO KNU Historic Plate Archive   AO KNU glass collection contains about 20 thousand photographic plates. Historical part of the archive was received during 1898-1946 and now is being digitized.
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ASTRO INFO NET
Navigating the Stars: A Young Learner's Guide to Astronomy 
For as long as humanity has gazed upward, the night sky has been a source of fascination, wonder, and endless curiosity. The stars that light up the dark canvas of the night, the planets that dance across the sky, and the boundless mysteries of the universe invite us to question, explore, and dream. This guide serves as a compass to understand the vast realm of astronomy, lead you through the cosmos, enhance your understanding of the world, and inspire you to discover your place within this universe....
 
The Role of Data Science in Astronomy and Interstellar Exploration 
Space has always been a fascinating frontier for humans. From the first satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957, to the amazing Mars rovers, our adventures in space show our love for discovery, creativity, and courage. Exploring space is a big dream, always pushing us to learn more and go further.Nowadays, data science is making a meaningful contribution to space technology. It's changing how we think about space. Being able to gather, understand, and use lots of data has helped us get to know the universe better and has changed how we explore and move through space.This article will examine how important data science is in space technology and how it's changing our journey into space. We'll cover how data science is making our space missions smarter and helping us solve the mysteries of space...
 
GRID-based Virtual Observatory VIRGO.UA 
VO VIRGO.UA for cosmology and astrophysics is a segment of VO «Infrastructure»- a virtual organization, which deals with ensuring the provision of standards for Grid Services for virtual organizations, to ensure reliability functioning of the Ukrainian power grid, Grid training for users and administrators of the Grid sites, as well as the creation of technical conditions UNG for entry into the international grid community...
 
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US VAO Data Discovery Portal 
Find datasets from thousands of astronomical collections known to the VO and over wide areas of the sky. This includes important collections from archives around the world. Feedback on your experience with the tool is appreciated -- please send your comments, suggestions, and questions to the VAO Help Desk.
 
US VAO Cross-Comparison Tool 
Perform fast positional cross-matches between an input table of up to 1 million sources and common astronomical source catalogs, such as 2MASS, SDSS DR7 and USNO-B. Feedback on your experience with the tool is appreciated -- please send your comments, suggestions, and questions to the VAO Help Desk.
 
VOPlot v1.8 Beta 
VOPlot v1.8Beta includes many enhancements and bug fixes. To name a few v1.8Beta supports multi-grid plots for 2D Scatter-Plot which allows the user to have multiple plots having grid size from 1x1 to 3x3 in a single window. Paginated view is added to see data in tabular format which allows user to navigate systematically. Provision to label Lat/Long lines is also added. Users can now plot a cumulative histogram for all histogram types. VOPlot 1.8Beta shows the metadata of a FITS file instantaneously while the actual loading happens in background. VOPlot v1.8Beta also provides better handling of "faulty data" while parsing an ASCII file.
 


   Archive of MAO NAS of Ukraine 

The collection of glass plates in the archive of MAO NASU (Golosiiv plate archive - hereafter GPA) numbers near 85 thousands of negatives obtained in frames of various observational projects and starts in 1949. More than 26 thousands of them are the direct plates in the areas of the northern sky. The limiting magnitude of the most plates is 14m.0 - 16m.0.

The vast amount of information, contained in this archive, its partial regulation and absence of the unified systematization didn't allow to use the archive either in total efficiently or to find separate plates quickly. At the moment when photographic observations had been totally stopped, a sheer necessity arose to order and classifies all the information collected in MAO NASU during more than 60 years of observations. The process started in 2000 with mere ordering of boxes with plates, analyzing characteristics of plates from the point of view which instruments were applied, which goals were pursued and formats were developed for the observational log data digitizing.

GPA collection was obtained generally with the telescopes, installed in MAO NASU. 85% of the northern sky observations are conducted with five instruments: Double Long Focus Astrograph - 10.5 thousands of plates, Double Wide Angle Astrograph - 9.7 thousands of plates, Double Short Focus Astrograph - 4.2 thousands of plates, Three Camera Astrograph - 1 thousand, stellar telescope AZT-2 - 1.1 thousands. The residue of plates was obtained on four foreign instruments in Ecuador, Uzbekistan and Russia. Descriptions of MAO NASU main instruments are given in Table 1. The scientific projects the plates had been obtained for are described in Table 2. Table 3 comprises digitized archive data included into database of MAO NASU (DBGPÀ) in formats met the requirements of the world database of wide-angle glass archives WFPDB ( www.skyarchive.org).

Designations of instruments in the tables:


AST2 - stellar telescope AZT-2 MAO NAS of Ukraine

DAZ - Zeuss Double Wide Angle Astrograph, Kitab station, Uzbekistan

DLA - Double Long Focus Astrograph, MAO NAS of Ukraine

DSA - Double Short Focus Astrograph, MAO NAS of Ukraine

DWA - Zeuss Double Wide Angle Astrograph, MAO NAS of Ukraine

DWA(C)+ASC - Zeuss Double Wide Angle Astrograph, tube Ñ, with the satellite camera, MAO NAS of Ukraine

TCA - Three Camera Astrograph MAO NAS of Ukraine


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