The process of treatment of about 500 digitized plates has started in MAO NAS of Ukraine. Plates were taken with the Tautenburg 2m Schmidt telescope in 1963-1989. Linear dimensions of plates are 24x24 cm with a working field of 3.3x3.3 degrees and a scale of 51.4 "/ mm. Astronegatives were digitized on the Tautenburg Plate Scanner in five strips with linear dimensions of 5 400x23 800 px. The software developed in MAO NAS of Ukraine for the image processing of these scans takes into account the horizontal overlap and the vertical offset of strips. The photometric range of fixed objects is 12 magnitudes, around V = 7 m - 19 m , due to the separation of objects into faint and bright parts by their images’ diameters. Positions of stars and other fixed objects are obtained in the GAIA DR2 reference system. Magnitudes are defined in the V-band of the Johnson color system. The resulted positional accuracy defined from 180 plates’ processing is σ RA,DEC = 0.10"for both coordinates, photometric error on the whole range of magnitudes is σ V = 0.14 m . The convergence of resulted magnitudes with ones from photoelectric standards’ data is 0.19 m . In parallel with image processing and plate data reduction, the search for minor planets’ images was carried out. Nine positions and magnitudes of 4 asteroids registered on the plates obtained in 1963-1965 were defined and used for further analysis.
The paper presents the first results of processing of photographic observations of SS bodies based on materials from the collection of plates of the Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan (UBAI). The glass archive of the UBAI has about 15 thousand photographic plates with images of various space objects. In this paper, we discuss the first results of processing of major planets' photographic observations in Uzbekistan using the new technique. The observations were carried out on two astrographs-Tashkent normal astrograph (TNA, D/F=330/3438) and Kitab Double Zeiss astrograph (DAZ, D/F=400/3000) in 1895-2004. Currently, in AI the work runs to streamline the archive and create a database of observations in a single xls-format. The number of photographic plates with images of major planets obtained on two telescopes is more than 300 negatives. In 2017, together with MAO NAS of Ukraine, the processing of these photographic observations using the new methodology was started. By this time, in the
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