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Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is a project which will produce a detailed digital phometric map of half the northern sky to about 23 magnitude using a special purpose wide field telescope of 2.5 meter aperture. This map will be used to select about a million galaxies and 100,000 quasars, for which high resolution spectra will be obtained using the same telescope. A catalog will be produced of all the detected objects, about 100 million galaxies and a similar number of stars, and a million quasar candidates.

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Kent, S.M. Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Astrophys Space Sci 217, 27–30 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00990018

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