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...faculty at the observatory hope that making high-resolution digital copies of all the plates—a project slated to take five years—will also help modern astronomers as they probe current mysteries of the universe through a detailed look into the past...
Doane put the price tag of the project over the next five years at roughly $5 million...
...special calibration software designed specifically for this project will then stitch the photos together and create a large image accurate to lengths of less than one micron...
Jeffrey J. Blair ’09, an astronomy concentrator, said that without this project, the plates would be almost useless to modern astronomers...
Blair said he also hopes this project will open up important research opportunities to undergraduates...