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Specialist display functions for use with the SuperCOSMOS survey.
These functions display cutout images from the various
archives hosted at the SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys
(http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/sss/).
In most cases these cover the whole of the southern sky.
- sssShowCutout( ra, dec, pixels )
- Displays a cutout image in one of the available bands from
the SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys.
The displayed image is square, and
pixels
pixels in
the X and Y dimensions. Pixels are approximately 0.67 arcsec square.
Sky coverage is complete.
- sssShowCutout( ra, dec )
- Displays a cutout image of default size in one of the available
bands from the SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys.
Sky coverage is complete.
- sssShowBlue( ra, dec, pixels )
- Displays a cutout image of default size from one of the blue-band
surveys from SuperCOSMOS.
Sky coverage is complete.
- sssShowRed( ra, dec, pixels )
- Displays a cutout image of default size from one of the red-band
surveys from SuperCOSMOS.
Sky coverage is complete.
- sssShowUkstB( ra, dec, pixels )
- Displays a cutout image taken from the SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys
UK Schmidt Telescope Bj-band survey.
The displayed image is square, and
pixels
pixels in the
X and Y dimensions. Pixels are approximately 0.67 arcsec square.
Sky coverage is -90<Dec<+2.5 (degrees).
- sssShowUkstR( ra, dec, pixels )
- Displays a cutout image taken from the SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys
UK Schmidt Telescope R-band survey.
The displayed image is square, and
pixels
pixels in the
X and Y dimensions. Pixels are approximately 0.67 arcsec square.
Sky coverage is -90<Dec<+2.5 (degrees).
- sssShowUkstI( ra, dec, pixels )
- Displays a cutout image taken from the SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys
UK Schmidt Telescope I-band survey.
The displayed image is square, and
pixels
pixels in the
X and Y dimensions. Pixels are approximately 0.67 arcsec square.
Sky coverage is -90<Dec<+2.5 (degrees).
- sssShowEsoR( ra, dec, pixels )
- Displays a cutout image taken from the SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys
ESO R-band survey.
The displayed image is square, and
pixels
pixels in the
X and Y dimensions. Pixels are approximately 0.67 arcsec square.
Sky coverage is -90<Dec<+2.5 (degrees).
- sssShowPossE( ra, dec, pixels )
- Displays a cutout image taken from the SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys
Palomar E-band survey.
The displayed image is square, and
pixels
pixels in the
X and Y dimensions. Pixels are approximately 0.67 arcsec square.
Sky coverage is -20.5<Dec<+2.5 (degrees).
- SSS_BASE_URL
- Base URL for SuperCOSMOS image cutout service.
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TOPCAT - Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables
Starlink User Note253
TOPCAT web page:
http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/
Author email:
m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk
Mailing list:
topcat-user@jiscmail.ac.uk