Re: Sky Map

[Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>]

I think the way to make this work is to either
1) extract data from PostgreSQL database
2) Read the star list files generated by the pipelines,
   assuming that people do use a standard FITS file format
   for the star lists.

I like #1 because it enforce that the map does in fact
exactly match the data that is available on-line.
What would be real nice is if the map were an HTML image
map.  


--- Robert Creager <robert_creager@logicalchaos.org> wrote:
> 
> Hey folks,
> 
> Anyone interested in a Sky Coverage Graph, ala:
> http://scully.harvard.edu/~cgi/SkyCoverage.html
> 
> I've done a little work on it, like defining an initial database, a
> XML schema and sample XML file:
> http://www.logicalchaos.org/tass/tass-observations.jpg
> http://www.logicalchaos.org/xml/observations.xsd
> http://http://www.logicalchaos.org/xml/observations.xml
> 
> It's still needs some rework (allow 'friends of tass' to place their
> observations/single camera systems, ???), but the idea is to have
> observations submitted via either e-mail or http PUT operation (form
> on web page or script upload).
> 
> This capability may eventually be taken care of by the 'master' dB,
> but I wanted to play, and this is something I can manage with my
> meager alloted server space.
> 
> Of course, this would need buy in from the telescope operators, and I
> am willing to spend time with each of you to create scripts/programs
> which would create the necessary XML data from your respective
> pipeline when the time comes.
> 
> What say?
> 
> Cheers,
> Rob
> 


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