Publication
The compressed version of the First Generation DSS was published on 102 CD-ROMs in 1994, under the name "Digitized Sky Survey." It has also been published by STScI and several other facilities in databases that can be queried over the web. The moniker "First Generation" was added later.
In 1996, a more highly compressed version of the DSS was published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific under the name RealSky.
The Second Generation DSS has appeared steadily over the course of several years. In 2006, the Second Generation DSS (second epoch POSS-II and SES surveys) was finished, and distributed on CDROM to partner institutions. Generally, the data are available through WWW services at partner institutions.
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