Thread: Help required – reading a FITS File that hosts Quasar data
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Old 22-06-2023, 08:20 AM
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I suspect it might not be an image file... I'm downloading it now to have a look at for you.

I found a copy of the file here https://www.sdss4.org/dr17/algorithms/qso_catalog/ for anyone else who's curious.

FWIW, the file is about 2.4GBytes in size, so not to be sneezed at.

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