Pan-STARRS dr1 (data release of digital sky)

• by Budgieye moderator

  The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) a sky survey

  Most of northern sky, which is dr1 (data release 1)

  images http://ps1images.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/ps1cutouts

  website http://panstarrs.stsci.edu/

  data in http://archive.stsci.edu/panstarrs/search.php

  Hawaii

  Looking at the Northern Sky, so missing some of the south sky, as you can see by the flat bit at the bottom

  

  https://images.sciencedaily.com/2016/12/161219120207_1_900x600.jpg

  mirror - not as big as SDSS, or Hubble, so not as good resolution?

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  Mystery Object posted by ElisabethB

  image in PanSTARRS dr1, there are FITS images too, maybe someone else can explore them in case they have more detail?

  http://ps1images.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/fitscut.cgi?red=/data/ps1/node18/stps18.0/nebulous/c6/47/5880448888.gpc1%3ALAP.PV3.20140730%3A2015%3A01%3A13%3ARINGS.V3%3Askycell.1513.092%3ARINGS.V3.skycell.1513.092.stk.4162462.unconv.fits&blue=/data/ps1/node05/stps05.1/nebulous/ce/a1/7171282578.gpc1%3ALAP.PV3.20140730%3A2015%3A01%3A16%3ARINGS.V3%3Askycell.1513.092%3ARINGS.V3.skycell.1513.092.stk.4185714.unconv.fits&green=/data/ps1/node16/stps16.0/nebulous/c6/72/5882291572.gpc1%3ALAP.PV3.20140730%3A2015%3A01%3A14%3ARINGS.V3%3Askycell.1513.092%3ARINGS.V3.skycell.1513.092.stk.4171777.unconv.fits&x=49.501640&y=11.775470&size=240&wcs=1&asinh=True&autoscale=99.750000&output_size=256

  SDSS

  mystery object in SDSS

  http://skyservice.pha.jhu.edu/DR8/ImgCutout/getjpeg.aspx?ra=49.50164175&dec=11.77546787&scale=0.1980635&width=512&height=512&opt=&query=

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr8/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=1237664088598052929

  https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/subjects/AGZ0002ja5 posted by ElisabethB

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  I haven't found out what the rapid response is, but it sounds exciting.

  Posted December 21, 2016 8:19 AM