What shall we do with photometric data?

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Authors	KOCIÁN Radek PLÁVALOVÁ Eva SOLOVAYA N. A. PITTICH Eduard KIYAEVA O. V. ŠMELCER Ladislav ZASCHE Petr ŠIMON Vojtěch POLÁŠEK Cyril JELÍNEK Martin HUDEC René ŠTROBL Jan CHRASTINA Marek ZEJDA Miloslav MIKULÁŠEK Zdeněk
Year of publication	2010
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Open European Journal on Variable Stars
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Web	http://var.astro.cz/oejv/oejv.php?lang=en
Field	Astronomy and astrophysics
Keywords	photometry; CCD photometry; FITS; MUNI-FITS-Util
Description	According to our rough order of magnitude estimate there should be about one million CCD images contained in the Czech archives. However, it is difficult to reach them. Data are stored in several dozens of separated archives, mostly not accessible via internet. Typically, observers put into the public archives only their observing diary and their final results, but no raw data images. We are convinced that now is the time to make a change. We would like to establish common photometric archive containing raw CCD images, that is publicly available. Such an archive would have many advantages such as simpler data search and easier adaptation of the archive to bigger projects such as Virtual Observatory.
Related projects:	Spectral energy distribution of hot stars and its variability