A blink comparator is a viewing apparatus formerly used by astronomers to find differences between two photographs of the night sky. It permits rapid switching...

as they change over time (SN 1987A is a spectacular example). The blink comparator is an instrument that is used to compare two nearly identical photographs...

steam locomotive. Blinker light, a naval signal lamp device; also sometimes used as a verb indicating use of such a device Blink comparator to detect changes...

known for the invention of the projection blink comparator (PROBLICOM), a low-cost version of the blink comparator. This inexpensive tool allowed amateur...

an icy planetoid with an orbit between Saturn and Uranus. He used a blink comparator, the same device that had allowed Clyde Tombaugh to discover Pluto...

discoverer of minor planets. He worked at Lowell Observatory using the blink comparator alongside Robert Burnham Jr., author of the famous three-volume Celestial...

photographs of the same section of sky several nights apart. He then used a blink comparator to compare the different images. When he shifted between the two images...

pair and determine whether any objects had shifted position. Using a blink comparator, he rapidly shifted back and forth between views of each of the plates...

considered to be included in this group. Traditionally, devices like a blink comparator were used in astronomy to detect objects in the Solar System, because...

He then placed both images of each section in a machine called a blink comparator, which by exchanging images quickly created a time lapse illusion of...

texts by eye. The idea built on earlier work such as Carl Pulfrich's blink comparator used to help identify the former planet Pluto, and Hinman's work analysing...

to repeat the same series of images and compare the results with a blink comparator. In doing so, he discovered 379 new variable stars and over 1000 stars...

Rather than looking through the telescope, it was discovered by using a blink comparator with images taken by an astrograph. By the late 20th century, electronic...

Antikythera mechanism: ancient Greek analogue astronomical computer Blink comparator: instrument for comparing small differences between two photographs...

printouts of graphics, a claim few diff programs can make. Beaufort scale Blink comparator Hinman collator Image differencing Visual inspection Visual search...

(Pulfrich) 37.7 2020 Carl Pulfrich, German physicist and inventor of the blink comparator, the device used to discover Pluto WGPSN Simonelli 12°47′N 314°46′E...

viewer, and probably had in mind combining its principle with that of a blink comparator, which he used in finding stars of high proper motion, to make a screen...

Arizona, in 1958 to work on a survey of stellar proper motion using a blink comparator. While Burnham was working at Lowell, he and his co-worker, Norman...

Germany DMP · 565 566 Stereoskopia 1905 QO The Blink comparator, formerly known as "stereo-comparator", is an apparatus used to find differences between...

past, searches for high proper motion objects were undertaken using blink comparators to examine the images by eye. More modern techniques such as image...

looking at photographs (i.e. 'plates' in astronomy vernacular) in a blink comparator taken with a refracting telescope, an astrograph with a 3 element 13-inch...

Phoebe in 1898. Pluto was discovered using photographic plates in a blink comparator; its moon Charon was discovered 48 years later in 1978 by U.S. Naval...

discrepancy between two images for use in fractal image processing". Blink comparator Difference matte Image stabilization Dark frame subtraction – where...

professional organisations in NSW. One example of such an instrument is the blink comparator commissioned by Father O'Leary of the Riverview College Observatory...

of transient events, and rapid notification of interested people. Blink comparators have long been used to detect differences between two photographic...

and concluded that he had made a serious error. He used a stereo blink comparator to compare new plates with plates some 10–20 years old. By blinking...

the same telescope in 1908 by F.C. Jordan, allowing Hubble to use a blink comparator to search for any changes over time in the nebula. NGC 2261 was imaged...

Juno — Pulfrich Carl Pulfrich, German physicist who developed the blink-comparator used to discover Pluto 2020-08-05 · WGPSN Simonelli Damon Simonelli...

covered an area of 36° × 18°. The Zeiss blink comparator from the Heidelberg Observatory was adapted to perform blink comparison of the plates. This resulted...

She analyzed thousands photographic plates using a device called a blink comparator, and "contributed immensely to the program of minor planet observations"...