There was a similar project at the University of Minnesota, called MAPS: http://aps.umn.edu/about/ http://aps.umn.edu/about/ where plates like these from the Pa

There was a similar project at the University of Minnesota, called MAPS: http://aps.umn.edu/about/ http://aps.umn.edu/about/ where plates like these from the Palomar Observatory were digitized and turned into a catalog of space objects. These can be very handy if you are curious where things were back in 1958 compared to today.