The Yerkes Obervatory Photographic Plates

Links to information about Yerkes plates

• Summary of the Yerkes log books, the various plate series and where the series are located in the Yerkes plate archive. Download Summary (Excel)
• Characteristics of telescopes and lenses used to obtain plates in the Yerkes Archive can be seen
• Catalogs of the plates in various plate series
  • Wide-field plates 1897-1934 (most by Barnard)
     
  • Wide-field plates of comets and comet fields 1897-1934 (by Barnard)
     
  • Copies of plates taken by Barnard while at Lick Observatory 1889-1895
     
  • Wide-field patrol camera plates 1916-1932
     
  • Wide-field plates 1824-1949 (by Ross and others)
     
  • Small-field plates taken with the Yerkes 41-inch reflector 1969-1998
     
  • Cook 10-inch wide-field camera
     
  • University of Illinois Ross-Fecker wide-field camera
     
  • Dearborn Observatory 10-inch wide-field camera