astroferreira / SDSS-bulk-JPG-download

Python script which downloads images of sky objects given their right ascension and declination

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Python 3+ Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) bulk jpeg image download script.

For bulk download, start many terminal instances.

You can add arguments to the url string:
http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr16/SkyServerWS/ImgCutout/getjpeg?ra={}&dec={}
http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr16/SkyServerWS/ImgCutout/getjpeg?ra={}&dec={}&scale={}&width={}&height={}&opt={}&query={}

Example image: http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr16/SkyServerWS/ImgCutout/getjpeg?ra=179.689293428354&dec=-0.454379056007667&scale=0.79224&width=512&height=512&opt=&query=

Usage:
$ python3 download_images.py start stop

Example:
$ python3 download_images.py 0 100
$ python3 download_images.py 100 200

You can find CSV files with sky positions of classified galaxies at: https://data.galaxyzoo.org/

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Python script which downloads images of sky objects given their right ascension and declination


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