Specialist display functions for use with the SuperCOSMOS survey. These functions display cutout images from the various archives hosted at the SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys (http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/sss/). In most cases these cover the whole of the southern sky.
sssShowCutout( ra, dec, pixels )
pixels
pixels in
the X and Y dimensions. Pixels are approximately 0.67 arcsec square.
Sky coverage is complete.
ra
(floating point): right ascension of image centre in degrees
dec
(floating point): declination of image centre in degrees
pixels
(integer): dimension of the displayed image
sssShowCutout( ra, dec )
ra
(floating point): right ascension of image centre in degrees
dec
(floating point): declination of image centre in degrees
sssShowBlue( ra, dec, pixels )
ra
(floating point): right ascension of image centre in degrees
dec
(floating point): declination of image centre in degrees
pixels
(integer): dimension of the displayed image
sssShowRed( ra, dec, pixels )
ra
(floating point): right ascension of image centre in degrees
dec
(floating point): declination of image centre in degrees
pixels
(integer): dimension of the displayed image
sssShowUkstB( ra, dec, pixels )
pixels
pixels in the
X and Y dimensions. Pixels are approximately 0.67 arcsec square.
Sky coverage is -90<Dec<+2.5 (degrees).
ra
(floating point): right ascension of image centre in degrees
dec
(floating point): declination of image centre in degrees
pixels
(integer): dimension of the displayed image
sssShowUkstR( ra, dec, pixels )
pixels
pixels in the
X and Y dimensions. Pixels are approximately 0.67 arcsec square.
Sky coverage is -90<Dec<+2.5 (degrees).
ra
(floating point): right ascension of image centre in degrees
dec
(floating point): declination of image centre in degrees
pixels
(integer): dimension of the displayed image
sssShowUkstI( ra, dec, pixels )
pixels
pixels in the
X and Y dimensions. Pixels are approximately 0.67 arcsec square.
Sky coverage is -90<Dec<+2.5 (degrees).
ra
(floating point): right ascension of image centre in degrees
dec
(floating point): declination of image centre in degrees
pixels
(integer): dimension of the displayed image
sssShowEsoR( ra, dec, pixels )
pixels
pixels in the
X and Y dimensions. Pixels are approximately 0.67 arcsec square.
Sky coverage is -90<Dec<+2.5 (degrees).
ra
(floating point): right ascension of image centre in degrees
dec
(floating point): declination of image centre in degrees
pixels
(integer): dimension of the displayed image
sssShowPossE( ra, dec, pixels )
pixels
pixels in the
X and Y dimensions. Pixels are approximately 0.67 arcsec square.
Sky coverage is -20.5<Dec<+2.5 (degrees).
ra
(floating point): right ascension of image centre in degrees
dec
(floating point): declination of image centre in degrees
pixels
(integer): dimension of the displayed image
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