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Image Service:
Digitized Sky Survey

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Short name: DSS ESO IVOA Identifier: ivo://eso.org/dssPublisher: ESOivo://eso.org[Pub. ID] More Info: http://archive.eso.org/dss/dss VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.	Status: active Registered: 2007 Sep 20 00:00:00Z
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Description

The Online Digitized Sky Surveys (DSS1 & 2) server at the ESO/ST-ECF Archive provides access to the CD-ROM set produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute through its Guide Star Survey group. The images of these surveys are based on photographic data obtained using the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain and the UK Schmidt Telescope. The plates were processed into the present compressed digital form with the permission of these institutions. The photographic plates were scanned 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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About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: ESOivo://eso.org[Pub. ID]

Creator: European Southern Observatory Contributor: Palomar Sky Survey

Contact Information:

X European Southern Observatory, Science Archive Facility
Email: support at eso.org

Status of This Resource

This section provides some status information: the resource version, availability, and relevant dates.

Version: n/a
Availability: This is an active resource.

This service apparently provides only public data

This resource was registered on: 2007 Sep 20 00:00:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2021 Jul 05 08:18:13Z

What This Resource is About

This section describes what the resource is, what it contains, and how it might be relevant.

Resource Class: CatalogService: This resource is a service that provides access to data (specifically, images). With this type of service, you can search for data by issuing a query, and information about available data is returned as a table.

Resource type keywords: Archive	Subject keywords: Surveys Stars Galaxies
Intended audience or use: Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: http://archive.eso.org/dss/dss

Available Service Interfaces

Simple Image AccessXX

This is a standard IVOA service used to search for images from this resource that overlap with a specified region of the sky.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for the standard interface:

http://archive.eso.org/bin/dss_sia/dss.sia?VERSION=1.0&

Image service type: Cutout: images will be cut out to match the requested region.
Maximum query region accepted: longitude: 0.66 degrees; latitude: 0.66 degrees
Maximum region size returned: longitude: 0.66 degrees; latitude: 0.66 degrees
Maximum image size returned: 3000 X 3000 pixels
Maximum image size returned: 20 MB
Maximum number of matching records returned: 1000

Developed with the support of the National Science Foundation
under Cooperative Agreement AST0122449 with the Johns Hopkins University
The NAVO project is a member of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance

This NAVO Application is hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute

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