SDSS catalog data demo, March 30, 2007
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Jordan Raddick and Ani Thakar
CAS Data Access
•SkyServer
–Web browser is all you need
–Meant to support several levels of users: http://cas.sdss.org/astro/ | http://skyserver.sdss.org/
–Visual tools to browse image and catalog data
–Command-line application programming interfaces: emacs, sqlcl …also see http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/help/docs/api.asp
–Strict limits on execution time and output size … always test-drive your query (‘quick’ or ‘top 100’)!