and on it has now been turned. Seems to work just fine, same format
and all that as sdss dr4 and sdss dr3 at vizier before it.

cheers

john

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "duble.stars" <duble.stars@...> wrote:
>
> http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/ftp-index?/ftp/cats/II/276
>
> well, it's not in vizier as of this writing, but it'll be in there
> once they've turned it on, for note they already give a link to it.
>
> Frankly this is weird, when they plugged data release 4 into vizier
> they officially obsoleted the data release 3 setup, flagging it as
> such, so does that mean they're going to obsolete data release 4
> already? Might as well, release 5 totally supercedes it.
>
>
> Bill, FYI, data release 5 is _it_. That's the end of the SDSS data
> run, or more technically, SDSS I, as an SDSS II was started afterward,
> but that's kind of a separate thing mostly looking at different bits
> of sky, and it's doubtful anything in II will supplant stuff in I.
>
> So, SDSS data release 5 is it, the final release, and now linked via
> vizier, a quarter of the sky, plus photometry, from about 14th to 24th
> (21st is safer) mag.
>
> With CMC14 at VizieR, SDSS data release 5 there now, them two are
> worth download buttons, as they're very hard to get any other way ;)
>
> Fullness of time, of course, and all that.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>