Image Mosaic Service

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SDSS mosaics made prior to 27Mar2008 have an incorrect value for the
MAGZP parameter in their FITS header. It should be 28.03 for all bands.

Returns science-grade mosaics that preserve fluxes and
astrometry and rectify backgrounds to a common level.

2MASS Galactic Plane Three-Color Mosaic

Coordinate / Object:
Survey / Band:
Region Size (deg): 1.0 Max
Pixel Resolution:

Coordinate System:

Label (optional):

Users are currently limited to 10 simultaneous
jobs. Results will be kept for about three days
and then purged.

Coordinate Examples:

289.3848 11.9674 eq | 46.5377 -0.2518 ga |
19h17m32s 11d58m02s Equ J2000 | M 31

NOTE: Defaulting to Equatorial J2000 coordinates will allow the software to utilize custom projection routines which are substantially faster than the general case.

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All publications and images that use this service should include this acknowledgment:

"This research made use of Montage, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Earth Science Technology Office, Computational Technnologies Project, under Cooperative Agreement Number NCC5-626 between NASA and the California Institute of Technology. The code is maintained by the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive."

This service also uses software developed by IPAC for the US National Virtual Observatory, which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.