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Thank you for visiting NCSA's Astronomy homepage. There are an awsome number of exciting research projects currently happening in the Astronomy community and the researchers at NCSA and the University of Illinois are key participants. This website contains information on the Astronomy efforts at NCSA.

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A interactive, online searchable website is now available for Dr. Adam Rengstorf's paper entitled "QUEST1 Variability Survey II: Variability Determination Criteria and 200k Catalog".

Dr. Adam Rengstorf's recent work on the QUEST1 data has been added to the site. His paper, "QUEST1 Variability Survey II: Variability Determination Criteria and 200k Catalog" along with data results and a soon-to-come interactive, online searchable database is available on the QUEST1 page.

Updates to the Data Archiving project. A section for the USNO-B dataset was added. There is a link to a C application that converts the UNSO-B binary files into ASCII for import into a database.

Added the DPOSS project. Here are links to a searchable online catalog as well as descriptions of projects involving the DPOSS data.

Major updates to Data Pipeline Portal and the Cross ID Federation projects.

Today, the new look-and-feel for this website went live.