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From: kimball@stsci.edu (Timothy Kimball)
Subject: Re: HST FITS images???
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In article <CJp9Iz.6C6@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>,
gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) wrote:
: I've heard this one year figure stated quite a few times.  So, can
: anyone give me a pointer to greater than 1 year old hubble pics in
: FITS format?  I looked around on stsci.edu, and didn't find any data
: in FITS format, of any age.

And in article <CJqAK4.Ezw@world.std.com>,
davec@world.std.com (Dave Caswell) responded:
: The HST data archive is so extensive that very little is kept on-line for
: immediate access, but is retrieved made available when requested.  All of
: the information needed on how to gain access to the HST data archive is
: available in stsci.ed.  cd to the directory hst-archive  and read the
: documentation... it's all in there.

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% I'm still in AAS Conference mode :^)

It's also available from either of these two sites at STScI:

  stdata.stsci.edu stdata (130.167.1.135), a VAX running VMS, and
  stdatu.stsci.edu stdatu (130.167.1.148), a SUN4.

(These two workstations have been providing the astronomical community
with access to the public-domain portion of the HST Archive since
February 1993.)

In stdatu, the documentation is in /stdatu/test1/guest/documents/manuals;
in stdata it's in DISK$STDATA0:[DOCUMENTS.MANUALS].
The filename for the StarView primer
is primer_starview.ps on both machines.

N.B.: If you use ftp to get these PostScript manuals, use username guest
and password archive.  (Use the same username and password to telnet
to these machines as a guest.)

As for what's available:  We have close to 40,000 CAL-class datasets
(observations) which are in the public domain.  This represents about
80% of our calibrated science holdings.  The data is going public at
the rate of over a thousand datasets a month.

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