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ESO Archive Frequently Asked Questions
General: What kind of products and services can I obtain from the Archive Facility?
The ESO/ST-ECF Science Archive Facility offers the following services:
- Query the ESO observations catalog and related databases
such as ambient conditions at observatory sites, observing
programme schedule, calibration databases, etc. Please visit the overview page.
- Query the HST observations catalog and related databases
such as the proposal database, calibration databases, etc. See
also the overview of HST
databases.
- Access to images and spectra (raw data) and calibrations
(raw and masters) through archive data requests. This service
delivers data in a number of supported
media such as on-line data fetching through FTP or CDR/DVR or USB hard disks .
- On-line Access to the images from the
Digitized Sky Surveys made
available by the Space Telescope Science Institute through its
Guide Star Survey group.
- On-line Access to a number of astronomical catalogs, such as
the all-sky catalog of sources
(USNO-A) produced by the US Naval Observatory within the Precise Measurement Machine
Project. The USNO-A1.0 catalog includes almost 500 million
records.
- On-line Access to the reference astrometric catalogs
(Hipparcos, Tycho and Tycho 2).
- On-line access to publications from the ESO
User's community and to the abstracts of all major
astronomical journals through the ESO mirror of the ADS Abstracts
Service.
- Access to a number of software tools to handle and visualize
astronomical data (e.g. SkyCat, FITS Tools, Catalog server SW).
- On-line tools to prepare observations
(Night Sky Almanac,
Object Observability,
Hourly Airmasses).
- Access to the repositories of ESO data dictionaries, glossaries and list of acronyms commonly used at ESO.
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