The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Abstract)

Volume 31 number 2 (2003)

Jordan Raddick

Abstract

(Abstract only) The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will map 25% of the night sky from 9th to 23rd magnitude, cataloging more than 100 million objects and taking spectra of more than 1 million objects. All data from the SDSS will be publicly available on the Internet. SDSS data will give the public a unique opportunity to conduct astronomical research using the same data that professional astronomers use.