[including use of the Second Palomar Observatory Survey POSS II and the Digital Palomar Observatory Sky Survey DPOSS.
Plates for the POSS II survey were donated by the Eastman Kodak Corporation.
The POSS II survey was enabled by grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Geographic Society, and the National Science Foundation. Partial funding for the DPOSS survey was provided by the Norris Foundation.]
[Plates were scanned at the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the results catalogued at Caltech.]
URL for POSS II: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~wws/poss2.html
URL for DPOSS: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~george/dposs/