Sloan Digital Sky Survey local hosting

We’ve added to WikiSky ability to cut images from  SDSS (DR7) locally. WikiSky is still using exetrnal cutout tool (casjobs.sdss.org) for SDSS DR6,5,4 and 3. The problem with casjobs is that it has limited projection options that causes siginificant alignment problems when you move far away from projection center. Our image cutout tool has rich projections options, [...]

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Categories: WikiSky  |  Tags: SDSS, surveys  |  1 comment