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I retrieved some data and got a notice that it was ready. Where is it?

April 26, 2017Data GOT Notice ready retrieved

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I retrieved some data and got a notice that it was ready. Where is it?

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If you selected the HOST option in StarView or on the Web then the data was retrieved to the staging disk of stdatu. It has a “lifetime” on that disk of about 3 days. Use anonymous FTP to get your data (ignore the /stdatu/dads_stage part of the pathname). If you selected NET as the media option, then the data will have gone to the node name and directory you gave to Starview as the destination directory. back to top I don’t want the data I just requested. Can you kill this request? Once the request has been queued, we can’t kill it– at least, not without bringing down retrievals completely. back to top Can I get the data in (GIF/JPEG/whatever) format? The data are delivered from the Archive in multigroup Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format only. We currently do not support conversion to other formats; you will have to do this yourself. back to top How do I display data in FITS format? There are various FITS readers available. For example SAOimage (ds9), which can be retrieve