In the old times, in the 50s, in order to make a picture of the sky with a telescope,
Well, a man who held just about every clearance in the book and ran the Harvard Observatory in the 1950s, who was also part of the Bureau of Public Standards, basically compiling a lot of the astronomical data known to the public in the 50s and 60s, was a guy named Donald Menzel.
And maybe if we could show that they were the same amount as what you found in the plates from, you know, the 50s, maybe you'd get, you know, some sort of match.
Have you tried to look at other observatory data, other plates from the 50s,