Posted by Davin Flateau on 2 May 2005 at 9:21 am.
Filed under Astronomy.
Thousands of photographic plates with priceless images on them are under jeopardy as they degrade over time. They are snapshots of the sky from times gone past and can never be repeated.
Find out what’s being done to safeguard thousands of old photographic plates from small research observatories in my recent article here, on astronomy.com.
