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The Palomar Digital Sky Survey (DPOSS)

News flash: DPOSS images used for Google's Sky

DPOSS Data Server is temporarily unavailable (due to the lack of funds... but it will come back)

General Survey Descriptions:

• A brief popular description of DPOSS
  
• DPOSS is based on the digitization of the POSS-II photographic sky atlas
  
• "DPOSS Paper I" is still in prep... Meanwhile, you can cite as a general DPOSS reference: "The Palomar Digital Sky Survey (DPOSS)", Djorgovski, S. G., Gal, R. R., Odewahn, S. C., de Carvalho, R. R., Brunner, R., Longo, G., & Scaramella, R. 1999, in "Wide Field Surveys in Cosmology", eds. S. Colombi, Y. Mellier, & B. Raban, Gif sur Yvette: Editions Frontieres, p. 89. Available as astro-ph/9809187 * [local pdf file]
  
• The Digitized Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (DPOSS). II. Photometric Calibration, Gal, R.R., de Carvalho, R.R., Odewahn, S.C., Djorgovski, S.G., Mahabal, A., Brunner, R., & Lopes, P. 2005, Astron. J. 128, 3082 * [AJ link] * [local pdf file]
  
• The Digitized Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (DPOSS). III. Star-Galaxy Separation, Odewahn, S.C., de Carvalho, R.R., Gal, R.R., Djorgovski, S.G., Brunner, R., Mahabal, A., Lopes, P., Kohl Moreira, J., & Stalder, B. 2005, Astron. J. 128, 3092. [AJ link] * [local pdf file]
  
• A (probably incomplete) listing of DPOSS-based and DPOSS-related publications
  
• Miscellaneous related papers on astro-ph
  
• Credits
  

For more info, please contact George Djorgovski:

Other links:

• The successor of DPOSS: Palomar-Quest Survey
  
• Palomar Observatory
  
• Samuel Oschin Telescope
  
• George's Virtual Observatory links
  
• Caltech Astronomy Homepage
  

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