Astro::DDS module ----------------- What is it? ----------- The module is an object orientated interface to the both the first and second Digital Sky Surveys at the ESO-ECF online archive. While the first sky survey is 100% complete, the second survey covers 98% of the sky in Red, 45% of the sky in Blue and 27% of the sky in the Infra-red. Why do it? ---------- While other, currently undistributed, interfaces to the sky survey are in existance, there isn't one generally available. This module, while not as feature complete as some other interfaces is a quick and dirty interface was fairly easy to code up using bits and pieces of other eSTAR modules, see Astro::SIMBAD and Astro::ADS for instance. Requirements ------------ The module requires the libwww-perl-5.60 package written by Gisle Aas v5.53 or above. This package can be obtained via CPAN at http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libwww-perl Also required is the Net::Domain module, v2.13 or above, by Graham Barr . This module has been included in the base distribution since Perl 5.7.2, but otherwise can be downloaded from CPAN as part of the libnet package, see http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libnet Provides -------- The package provides the following classes Astro::DSS further information can be found in the POD included in DSS.pm Where can I get it? ------------------- The package is availabe from CPAN and from the eSTAR Project at http://www.estar.org.uk/ Installation ------------ Installation is automated using the ExtUtils::MakeMaker library % perl Makefile.PL % make % make test % make install Authors ------- The module was written by Alasdair Allan , of the University of Exeter Astrophysics Group (http://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/) as part of his work for the eSTAR project. License ------- This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place,Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA