Photographic plates from 1911 rediscovered at the Kraków Observatory

Photographic plates from 1911 rediscovered at the Kraków Observatory

Greg Stachowski, Katarzyna Bajan, Elżbieta Kuligowska, Tomasz Kundera

We have been able to identify a number of astronomical photographic plates rediscovered at the Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, as a record of the 1911 occultation of BD −12 4042 by Ganymede predicted by Banachiewicz. While our initial assumption that the plates recorded astronomical observations made in Europe turned out to be wrong, we found that the plates were more interesting than we had expected. Here we present their history and interpretation.

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 10, 361-363 (2020)

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