Chaps,
I've now got a feature in TOPCAT where you can click on a table row or
a point in a plot and it will work out the the RA and Dec, go off to a
cutout server, request an image in FITS or graphics format around that
point on the sky, and pop it up in a SoG window. It's all configurable
at runtime, but for convenience there are pre-packaged options which
talk to the SDSS server and, with the help of Mike Read at ROE,
the SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys. The latter is particularly nice,
since they've got full sky coverage, so as long as you've got RA & Dec
columns, you can see what the object for a row looks like in R or B bands.
My question to you, my astronomical elders and betters, is: can anyone
think of other surveys I ought to include? I need a cutout server
to be available, and for now I'm using good ol' fashioned
HTTP GET-flavoured CGI rather than anything fancy based on
SIAP/WSDL/etc. Whole-sky surveys in bands other than R/B (including
multicolour ones? I can display JPEGs etc) would be obvious choices,
but restricted-coverage ones of general applicability could be good too.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Mark
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Mark Taylor Starlink Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK
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