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’)!