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This page gives you easy access to individual images. Select a run, camcol and a field, as well as the image size from the form below. If you want to save an image to a disk, use this service. If you want to use this image on your website, feel free to do so, but please give us an acknowledgement.
Run
Camcol
Field   
Size

StripeRunField minField max
91140120323
123111213
10123911166
745517519
745519609
75211620
752620711
75641196
756196803
111458301692
199212133
146224176
1462176688
190742194
1222474648
224748164
2247177331
212513325
212611325
2126325441
219036190
2190190394
147817220
34213117129
224353205
213747310
35207476183
188940122
1889162170
1895161319
189646100
1896100186
20753069
207640173
22986192
2299198260
2299260328
2304162339
230536180
232684269
2326269313
232811179
36233571148
218941116
133164270
134560246
1345246296
1345380519
1345526695
213438138
13454060
224828197
2248197274
13321868
207845159
37135020212
1350212465
140211102
141211265
1412266389
145011111
145328123
220636159
220722118
4213361195
13391195
43135620106
135919105
76103511184
104347221
822662185436
273872317
332511506
86173711142
17411158
18914288
18931123
104541194
165925157
1659292306
172911227
1729231279
1729279318
1729318501
174011166
18694469
18696999

Table for field ranges

The images from the SDSS project are organized into stripes. These are long images, 24,000 pixels wide (2.5 degrees), and typically over 1 million pixels long (120 degrees). The SDSS covers the northern sky with 45 overlapping stripes. The stripes are designed to avoid the dust in the plane of the Milky Way, shown as the red areas in the diagram at right.
Each stripe is merged from two runs, taken on separate nights. The telescope can complete only a single 8-hour run in any given night. Each run consists of 6 camcols (camera columns); each camcol corresponds to each array of CCD detectors of our camera. Each camcol takes images in five colors.