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Topic started on 16-12-2008 @ 02:51 AM by spitefulgod
Southern sky to be mapped for first time

The above article explains the current efforts to begin mapping the southern skys using the 268-Megapixel SkyMapper telescope, hopefully when this is all done and dusted we can hear less of this Planet-X and we can all come up with a better doomsday scenario?


reply posted on 16-12-2008 @ 09:16 AM by ngchunter
Originally posted by DocEmrick
What's more interesting is that this is the first time anyone is mapping the Southern Sky? And it's almost 2009?

No, it's certainly not the first time in general, perhaps the first time using a digital camera though. SERC-J mapped the southern sky starting around 1975. You can access all the photographic plates in digitized form from that survey here:
archive.stsci.edu...
SERC-J was combined into POSS on that page to make an all-sky atlas of images taken starting around 1958 for the northern sky, and 1975 for the southern sky. The title of this article is extremely misleading.

The first digital map of the sky south of the equator...

The key word there is digital, apparently the author didn't understand that when she wrote the title.

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