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Largest Ever Digital Survey of the Milky Way Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the playing-nice-gets-you-places dept.

Several readers have written to tell us that an international team of over fifty astronomers from around the globe have created the largest ever digital survey of the Milky Way. IPHAS (INT/WFC Photometric H-alpha Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane) is an image survey designed to show large-scale structure within our galaxy. IPHAS data is being released by utilizing technology from the UK government funded open source project Astrogrid. Some of the images are quite spectacular.

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  1. Way to link to a 2 MB file in the summary by gumpish · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm sure the admins appreciate that.

    1. Re:Way to link to a 2 MB file in the summary by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      There is no such thing as a "forward slash".
      There is only "slash" and "backslash". What I want to know is why does every newbie user think that "\" == "slash" and "/" == "backslash"?

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    2. Re:Way to link to a 2 MB file in the summary by vranash · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      DOS:
      C Colon Slash
      C : \
      C:\

      And the options were referred to as backslash so and so.

      At least that was the terminology as I learned it when I was 8 or 10 or so.

    3. Re:Way to link to a 2 MB file in the summary by Kozar_The_Malignant · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Sorry, no. It was always "C colon backslash." At least for grownups. :-)

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