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Downtime
STScI will be performing network upgrades on the following dates:
- Sat 17 Apr 2021, 7:00 AM - 2:00 PM EDT (11:00 - 18:00 UTC)
- Sat 24 Apr 2021, 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDT (11:00 - 20:00 UTC)
- Sat 1 May 2021, 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDT (11:00 - 20:00 UTC)
- Sun 2 May 2021, 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDT (11:00 - 20:00 UTC)
- Sat 8 May 2021, TBD
- Sun 9 May 2021, TBD
Services may be unavailable or interrupted during these times.
The Digitized Sky Survey comprises a set of all-sky photographic surveys in E, V, J, R, and N bands conducted with the Palomar and UK Schmidt telescopes. The Catalogs and Surveys Branch (CASB) is digitizing the photographic plates to support HST observing programs but also as a service to the astronomical community.
The 6.5-degree x 6.5-degree plates are scanned using a modified PDS microdensitometer to a pixel scale of about 1.7 arcseconds per pixel for the POSS, SERC, and Palomar Quick-V surveys, and to about 1.0 arcseconds per pixel for the POSS-II surveys.
Images of any part of the sky may be extracted from the DSS, in either FITS or GIF format.
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