Basic Definitions needed Anything goes · irishlazz · ... · 3 · 170 · 0

irishlazz 0.00
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"The Digitized Sky Survey comprises a set of all-sky photographic surveys in E, V, J, R, and N bands conducted with the Palomar and UK Schmidt telescopes. " (https://archive.stsci.edu/dss/)

Naturally I've googled E, V, J, R, and N bands but have yet to see anything useful that is also simple.  I'm guessing V is Visible, but after that I am out of guesses.  I do realize this is probably very basic info that you'll all be surprised someone doesn't know.      Thanks for cluing me in.
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GW 0.00
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Hi,

The following link may be useful.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitized_Sky_Survey

The designations look look like they have been assigned to the original plate emulsions that were used.

GW
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Die_Launische_Diva 11.14
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You may start from Wikipedia's article on Digitized Sky Survey to work through the filter nomenclature
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irishlazz 0.00
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Perfect!  Thank you both!  If I'd have noodled on it longer I may have eventually put the right terms in the search engine to get me there, but I am so glad for the links.
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