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DASCH Data Release 7

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian DASCH project, 2026. Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard (dasch.cfa.harvard.edu).

The legacy release of the Harvard plate digitisation, completed in 2024: about 23.6 billion measurements of 252 million sources from about 1880 to 1990, scans of 429,274 plates, calibrations and logbook photographs, served through the daschlab Python package and web APIs.

MYS0D8E71V402ZV · mystery · click to copyMTabby's star (KIC 8462852)DatasetCopy of Harvard College Observatory photographic plates showing KIC 8462852Checked against the original0

What it's used for here

The source of the century-long light curve and of any re-test of the fade.

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DASCH project, C. f. A. |. H. &. S. (2026). DASCH Data Release 7. Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard (dasch.cfa.harvard.edu). https://dasch.cfa.harvard.edu/dr7/
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