| Description: ! The NEAT/SkyMorph survey provides access to the archives of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) project. NEAT is designed to look for potentially hazardous asteroids, i.e., those whose orbits cross the Earth's. Over 200,000 images are available in the NEAT archive. http://skys.gsfc.nasa.gov/skymorph/skymorph.htmlSkyMorph/a provides a Web interface to the NEAT images and allows users to select all images in which a given fixed or moving object is found. p Unlike most iSkyView/i surveys, the NEAT data are extremely irregular in their spatial distribution. iSkyView/i's algorithms for mosaicking images together to form large images are not adequate for the NEAT data, so mosaicking is surpressed. Only data within a single NEAT image will be displayed. The system attempts to find the most recent image within which has a offset in both RA and Dec of less than 0.8 degrees. If no such image is found, then an image with the minimum offset is returned, or the search may fail altogether if there are no nearby plates. The NEAT telescope uses an array of 4 CCDs. The backgrounds of the CCDs may differ significantly. p The NEAT survey covers approximately 30% of the sky. Extreme southern and low-Galactic latitude regions are unsurveyed. Coverage is otherwise particularly dense in the ecliptic plane. p NEAT data consists primarily of groups of three images taken with separations of 20 minutes and almost identical positions. i SkyView /i will normally return the last of a 'triplet'. The SkyMorph site can be used to display an overlay of triplets to look for targets which moved during the interval between images. p A catalog of objects detected in the NEAT/SkyMorph pages is accessible through the SkyMorph pages. 'Light-curves' from all images during which an object was in the NEAT field of view can also be generated. P The NEAT data values are in arbitrary density units. To enhance the display data are transformed such that all pixels below the median values are scaled linearly to values 0-20, while all pixels above the median are shifted (but not scaled) to values greater than 20. ]] |
| 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 | |