| Description: <A NAME=DSS2>Second Generation Digitized Sky Survey</A> This survey includes high-resolution all sky optical images in two colors. This survey is not local to <i>SkyView</i>, it is served remotely from the <a href=http://www-gsss.stsci.edu> ST ScI </a>. Processing of the survey is ongoing. The current state is of each of the elements is described in the <a href=http://www-gsss.stsci.edu/PlateMaterial/plateMaterial.htm#DSSIIPlates> plate status table </a> at the ST ScI. <P> Data are retrieved from the ST ScI site in 18' tiles that are cached at the <I>SkyView</i> server. Thus users may note that when multiple images are retrieved from near the same region, the first request takes substantially longer. <p> The native projection of these data is described as a high-order polynomial distortion of a gnomonic projection using the same terms as the DSS This is not one of the standard projections offered as an output by<i> SkyView</i>. |
| Completely compliant |
| Service URL |
| Input Parameter | Required | Present |
|---|---|---|
| Regular parameters: | ||
| POS | MUST | Yes |
| SIZE | MUST | Yes |
| INTERSECT | MAY | No |
| NAXIS | MAY | Yes |
| CFRAME | MAY | Yes |
| EQUINOX | MAY | Yes |
| CRPIX | MAY | No |
| CRVAL | MAY | No |
| CDELT | MAY | No |
| ROTANG | MAY | No |
| PROJ | MAY | Yes |
| FORMAT | MUST | Yes |
| Service specific parameters | ||
| INTERPOLATION | MAY | Yes |
| big | MAY | Yes |
| small | MAY | Yes |
| Field UCD | Required | Present | Required datatype |
Actual datatype |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular fields: | ||||
| VOX:Image_Title | MUST | Yes | char | char |
| INST_ID | SHOULD | No | char | |
| VOX:Image_MJDateObs | SHOULD | No | double | |
| POS_EQ_RA_MAIN | MUST | Yes | double | double |
| POS_EQ_DEC_MAIN | MUST | Yes | double | double |
| VOX:Image_Naxes | MUST | Yes | int | int |
| VOX:Image_Naxis | MUST | Yes | int | int |
| VOX:Image_Scale | MUST | Yes | double | double |
| VOX:Image_Format | MUST | Yes | char | char |
| VOX:STC_CoordRefFrame | SHOULD | No | char | |
| VOX:STC_CoordEquinox | MAY | No | double | |
| VOX:WCS_CoordProjection | SHOULD | No | char | |
| VOX:WCS_CoordRefPixel | SHOULD | No | double | |
| VOX:WCS_CoordRefValue | SHOULD | No | double | |
| VOX:WCS_CDMatrix | SHOULD | No | double | |
| VOX:BandPass_ID | SHOULD | No | char | |
| VOX:BandPass_Unit | SHOULD | No | char | |
| VOX:BandPass_RefValue | SHOULD | No | double | |
| VOX:BandPass_HiLimit | SHOULD | No | double | |
| VOX:BandPass_LoLimit | SHOULD | No | double | |
| VOX:Image_PixFlags | SHOULD | Yes | char | char |
| VOX:Image_AccessReference | MUST | Yes | char | char |
| Service specific fields: | ||||
| VOX:LogicalName | MAY | YES | char | |