Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Survey Operations Home Page

Welcome to the SDSS Survey Operations home page.  To see our observing progress, click on the following links.  The visual images show the amount of sky that we plan to survey, as well as the area that we've covered to date.  The graphs show the amount of data acquired to date against our baseline performance plan. The baseline performance plan and full set of progress graphs can be found here
 

Legacy Survey

Imaging Operations:

 Survey area scanned to date
 Cumulative imaging vs. baseline: Northern Survey
 Cumulative imaging vs. baseline: Southern Survey
 Cumulative imaging vs. baseline: Southern Equatorial Survey

Spectroscopic Operations:

 Survey area tiled to date
 Cumulative spectroscopy vs. baseline: Northern Survey
   Cumulative spectroscopy vs. baseline: Southern Survey
 Cumulative spectroscopy vs. baseline: Southern Equatorial Survey
   

Photometric Calibration Patches:  

 Secondary patch coverage to date

   

SEGUE Survey

Imaging Operations:

 Cumulative imaging vs. baseline

Spectroscopic Operations:

 Cumulative spectroscopy vs. baseline
   
 
Performance Summaries

Tabulated Progress Summaries:

 Imaging history to date, by quarter
   Imaging history to date, by dark run
   Spectroscopic history to date, by dark run

Observing Performance:

 Observing performance metrics


 


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