[AstroPy] SDSS Cutout image in FITS format

[Benjamin Alan Weaver]

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Hello Fabricio,

I think you might want to try the mosaic service at
http://data.sdss3.org/mosaics.

Kia ora koe,
Benjamin Alan Weaver


On 2013-08-08 09:51, Peter Erwin wrote:
> Hi Fabricio,
> 
> My fetchsdss.py script might do some of what you want:
> 
> http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~erwin/code/
> 
> It retrieves the full FITS images for a given SDSS field, given
> either the name of an object (with coordinate lookup via Simbad) or
> the coordinates (or the field specification itself, if you happen
> to know that). The current version works with DR7, but I have a
> beta version that can also retrieve DR9 images.
> 
> There's no ability to specify cutouts, though.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Peter
> 
> On Aug 8, 2013, at 3:24 PM, Fabricio Ferrari
> <fabricio at ferrari.pro.br> wrote:
> 
>> Hello all
>> 
>> I'd like to retrieve cutouts of SDSS fields in FITS format,
>> essentially in the same way to what CASJOBS ImgCutoutDR7 does,
>> except the output format. In ImgCutoutDR7 you can specify the
>> RA/DEC, SCALE and W/H directly in the URL specification, like the
>> example below.
>> 
>> http://casjobs.sdss.org/ImgCutoutDR7/getjpeg.aspx?ra=184.9511&dec=-0.8754&scale=1.5020920&width=293&height=293
>>
>> 
>> 
>> So, it is well suited to bath retrieve a list of galaxies. I'd
>> like the same for FITS. Do you know some tool/way to do that?
>> 
>> thanks in advance ..-. ..-. Fabricio Ferrari
>> [www.ferrari.pro.br] IMEF -  FURG Rio Grande, RS Brasil 
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