Issue 8: Contents

July 1996
Editors: G.M. Richter and K. Fritze
Editorial Note IV
H.T. MacGillivray
Article (PostScript, gzipped, 11 kB)

Ondrejov robotic telescope 1
J. Soldan, R. Hudec
Article - without figure - (PostScript, gzipped, 32 kB), Figure (GIF, 58 kB)

Recent development of the wide-field plate database 5
M.K. Tsvetkov, K.Y. Stavrev, K.P. Tsvetkova, A.S. Mutafov
Article - without figure and tables - (PostScript, gzipped, 41 kB), Figure (JPG, 79 kB), Table 1 (PDF, gzipped, 728 kB), Table 2 (PDF, 23 kB)

The Guide Star Catalog II: a new project 18
M.G. Lattanzi, B.M. Lasker
Article (PostScript, gzipped, 31 kB)

WWW access to new digitized survey images from STScI 20
B.M. Lasker, B.J. Mc Lean, M. Postman, V.G. Laidler
Article (PostScript, gzipped, 40 kB)

GSC+: Software for the Guide Star Catalogue correcting and transferring to the FK5 J2000 system 22
A. Lopez Garcia, L.I. Yagudin
Article (PostScript, gzipped, 30 kB)

Orthochromatic photographic plates made in Russia for astronomical observations 24
I.I. Brejdo, A.A. Kisseljev, O.M. Michailova
Article (PostScript, gzipped, 28 kB)

The Magellanic Catalogue of Stars (MACS):
A catalogue of positions for uncrowded stars towards the LMC and SMC
25
H.-J. Tucholke, K.S. de Boer, W.C. Seitter
Article (PostScript, gzipped, 35 kB)

Can we estimate distances by means of luminosity functions of the stars in galaxies? 27
T.B. Georgiev, B. Bilkina
Article (PostScript, gzipped, 33 kB)

PCVISTA-PLUS -- an extension of PCVISTA software 29
T.B. Georgiev,
Article (PostScript, gzipped, 36 kB)