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Data Preview 2
Data Preview 2 contains image and catalog products from Rubin Science Pipelines v30 processing of observations obtained with the LSST Camera between April 2025 and January 2026.
- Source repository
- lsst/dp2_lsst_io
LSST Science Pipelines
The LSST Science Pipelines are designed to enable optical and near-infrared astronomy in the “big data” era. While they are being developed to process the data for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (Rubin’s LSST), our command line and programming interfaces can be extended to address any optical or near-infrared dataset.
- Source repository
- lsst/pipelines_lsst_io
Prompt Products
Prompt Products include the alerts, catalogs, and images generated by real-time Rubin Science Pipelines processing of observations obtained with the LSST Camera.
- Source repository
- lsst/prompt-products_lsst_io
Rubin Science Platform
The Rubin Science Platform is an online service that enables you to access and analyze Rubin LSST data. This documentation will help you set up your user account and work with the Rubin Science Platform’s software and services.
- Source repository
- lsst/rsp_lsst_io
lsst.images
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.
- Source repository
- lsst/images
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