FOOTSERVER - Check if coordinate in SDSS footprint
The footserver program, located in
/data/oiropt/bin, is a shell script that formats an input
set of one or more coordinates, then sends a query to the Sloan SkyServer
that returns an indication if each coordinate is covered by the DR5
survey. This is a command-line interface to the Sloan GUI found at
http://das.sdss.org/DR6-cgi-bin/FOOT.
The input can be on the command line or the standard input or from a file,
using the -f filename option.
The coordinates must be either comma-separated or whitespace separated. The
coordinates can be in sexagismal format (RA hours, Dec degrees) or both in
floating point degrees. If any one of the input coordinates is in sexagismal
format, the output will be entirely so. If the input is entirely in degrees,
the option -s forces the output to be degrees.
Example 1:
Pairs of corrdinates can be input on the command line:
footserver 12:04:22 10:12:33 16:38:12.2 -1:20:00
outputs
ra dec run rerun camcol field
----------- ---------- ---- ----- ------ -----
12:04:22.08 10:12:33.0 3525 40 4 174
16:38:12.12 -1:20:00.0 0 0 0 0
and the zeroes in the run, etc. fields denote that the
second object is not in the Sloan coverage.
Example 2:
footserver 175.0 30.2 120.3 -5.5
outputs
ra dec run rerun camcol field
---------- --------- ---- ----- ------ -----
175.000000 30.200000 5061 40 5 392
120.300000 -5.500000 0 0 0 0
[getobjid]
[getspecid]
[footserver]
[sdssquery]
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