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Data Preview 2 (Early) contains catalog products and coadded images from the Rubin Science Pipelines v30 processing of early observations obtained with LSSTCam from April 2025 to January 2026. Coadded images and catalogs cover ~3000 square degrees; single-epoch catalogs cover ~15,000 square degrees.
Prompt Products are the alerts, catalogs, and images generated by real-time Rubin Science Pipelines processing of observations obtained with the LSST Camera.
Data Preview 1 contains image and catalog products from LSST Science Pipelines v29 processing of observations obtained with the LSST Commissioning Camera of seven ~1 square degree fields over seven weeks in late 2024.
DP0 is the first of three data previews during the period leading up to the start of Rubin Observatory Operations. DP0.2 features simulated Galactic and extragalactic data products. DP0.3 contains simulated Solar System objects.
Guides for setting up an account on the Rubin Science Platform and using the Portal, Notebook, and API Aspects.
Help pages for Firefly, which enables exploration and visualization of image and table data in the Portal Aspect.
The Science Pipelines include the Butler for accessing LSST data and a pipeline framework for processing data. The LSST Science Pipelines is preinstalled in the Notebook Aspect.
A Python library providing the data structures used to represent Rubin image data products, bundling image arrays, masks, and variance data with metadata such as point-spread function models.
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