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The Digitized Sky Survey was produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government grant NAG W-2166. 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.

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This research used the facilities of the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre operated by the National Research Council of Canada with the support of the Canadian Space Agency.

List of surveys used

Notes

1. POSS2/UKSTU Red = POSS-II F (North), AAO-SES/SERC-ER (South), AAO-SR (Selected crowded southern galactic plane)
2. POSS2/UKSTU Blue = POSS-II J (North), SERC-J/SERC-EJ (South)
3. POSS2/UKSTU IR = POSS-II N (North), SERC-I (South)
4. POSS1 Red = POSS-I E
5. POSS1 Blue = POSS-I O
6. Quick-V = Pal-QV
7. HST Phase2(GSC2) = POSS2/UKSTU Red described above
8. HST Phase2(GSC1) = Pal-QV (North), SERC-J (South), SERC-QV (Selected crowded southern galactic plane), various SERC-V/PAL-V supplemental plates
9. DSS1 = Pal-QV (North), SERC-J/SERC-EJ (South) DEPRECATED and No Longer Supported
10. Note that crowded SERC-J survey plates in the southern galactic plane were replaced with the short exposure SERC-QV to support HST requirements and so may not be available for download.
11. More information about the individual plates may be found in this file compiled from the observatory plate logs.

DSS Copyright Information

Each sky-survey file provided by this network server is copyright under one of the provisions listed below. The specific copyright notice that is pertinent can be identified from the FITS header file. Eventually, a provision to furnish specific copyright information to GIF users will be incorporated; in the meantime, users must obtain this information by a separate request to the Space Telescope Science Institute (ST ScI).

The "Second Epoch Survey" of the southern sky was made by the Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO) with the UK Schmidt Telescope. Plates from this survey have been digitized and compressed by the ST ScI. The digitized images are copyright © 1993-5 by the Anglo-Australian Observatory Board, and are distributed herein by agreement.

The "Equatorial Red Atlas" of the southern sky was made with the UK Schmidt Telescope. Plates from this survey have been digitized and compressed by the ST ScI. The digitized images are copyright © 1992-5, jointly by the UK SERC/PPARC (Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, formerly Science and Engineering Research Council) and the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board, and are distributed herein by agreement.

The compressed files of the "Palomar Observatory - Space Telescope Science Institute Digital Sky Survey" of the northern sky, based on scans of the Second Palomar Sky Survey are copyright © 1993-1995 by the California Institute of Technology and are distributed herein by agreement.

All material not subject to one of the above copyright provisions is copyright © 1995 by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.

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