NMW-TexasTech New Milky Way survey

Reference images

Find fields covering a sky position

Enter J2000 sky coordinates to find reference images that covers that position. Results show, for each matching image, the pixel position of the target, the distance to the image centre and to the nearest edge, and small zoom-in / zoom-out thumbnails so you can see at a glance whether the target falls near the centre of a field or close to its edge.

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Accepted coordinate formats:
  • Sexagesimal with colons: 17:45:37.199 -28:56:10.22
  • Sexagesimal with spaces: 17 45 37.199 -28 56 10.22
  • Decimal degrees: 266.4050 -28.9362
The Dec. sign may be -, +, or omitted for positive Dec.

You can also list every reference image (field name, image size, scale, full-frame thumbnail) without specifying a position:

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