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Runs in SDSS with slightly different survey coordinates

A few runs in the SDSS were taken with the telescope parked and scanning along the equator at the sidereal rate. These runs have a different node and inclination from the survey's default node of 95° and inclination increasing in steps of 2.5° from stripe to stripe.

Runs with non-standard node, inclination
"Target" data 94, 125, 745, 752, 756
"Best" data 745, 752, 756

To obtain the correct astrometrical transformations for these runs, you need to use the node/inclination given in the fits header of the tsField files, instead of the node and inclination used in the equations given in the coordinates section of the EDR paper.


Last modified: Fri Apr 4 18:45:20 CST 2003