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   <title>Westerbork Northern Sky Survey</title>
   <shortName>WENSS</shortName>
   <identifier>ivo://nasa.heasarc/skyview/wenss</identifier>
   <curation>
      <publisher ivo-id="ivo://nasa.heasarc/ASD">NASA/GSFC HEASARC</publisher>
      <creator>
         <name>&lt;i&gt;WENSS&lt;/i&gt; Team.  Data downloaded
    from 
    &lt;a href=ftp://vliet.strw.leidenuniv.nl/pub/wenss/HIGHRES/&gt;
    &lt;i&gt;WENSS&lt;/i&gt; FTP site&lt;/a&gt; 1999-03-18.
    The &lt;i&gt;WENSS&lt;/i&gt; project is a collaboration between the 
    &lt;a href="https://www.astron.nl/astronomy/"&gt;Netherlands Foundation for Research in
    Astronomy&lt;/a&gt; (NFRA/ASTRON) and the 
    &lt;a href="https://local.strw.leidenuniv.nl/"&gt;Leiden Observatory&lt;/a&gt;.</name>
      </creator>
      <contributor>Skyview Project</contributor>
      <date role="created">2026-04-03</date>
      <contact>
         <name>SkyView Help</name>
         <email>Skyview at skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov</email>     
      </contact>
   </curation>
   <content>
      <subject>surveys</subject>
      <description>The Westerbork Northern Sky Survey (&lt;i&gt;WENSS&lt;/i&gt;) is a low-frequency
radio survey that covers the whole sky north of delta=30 degree at a
wavelength of 92 cm to a limiting flux density of approximately 18 mJy
(5 sigma). This survey has a resolution of 54" x 54" cosec (delta)
and a positional accuracy for strong sources of 1.5''.
&lt;p&gt;
Further information on the survey including links to catalogs
derived from the survey is available at the
&lt;a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041204180313/http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/wenss/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;WENSS&lt;/i&gt; website&lt;/a&gt;.
&lt;p&gt;
The &lt;i&gt;WENSS&lt;/i&gt; survey is included on the &lt;b&gt;SkyView High Resolution Radio
Coverage &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/high_res_radio.jpg"&gt; map&lt;/a&gt;.  This map shows 
coverage on an Aitoff projection of the sky in equatorial coordinates.
&lt;p&gt;  Provenance:  &lt;i&gt;WENSS&lt;/i&gt; Team.  Data downloaded
    from 
    &lt;a href=ftp://vliet.strw.leidenuniv.nl/pub/wenss/HIGHRES/&gt;
    &lt;i&gt;WENSS&lt;/i&gt; FTP site&lt;/a&gt; 1999-03-18.
    The &lt;i&gt;WENSS&lt;/i&gt; project is a collaboration between the 
    &lt;a href="https://www.astron.nl/astronomy/"&gt;Netherlands Foundation for Research in
    Astronomy&lt;/a&gt; (NFRA/ASTRON) and the 
    &lt;a href="https://local.strw.leidenuniv.nl/"&gt;Leiden Observatory&lt;/a&gt;.. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
      </description>

      <referenceURL>
         https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov
      </referenceURL>
      <type>Archive</type>
      <contentLevel>Research</contentLevel>


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            <name>POS</name>
            <description>
            Search Position in the form "ra,dec" where ra and dec are given in decimal degrees
            in the ICRS coordinate system.
         </description>   
            <unit>degrees</unit>
            <dataType>real</dataType>
         </param>
       
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            <name>SIZE</name>
            <description>
            Size of search region in the RA and Dec. directions.   
         </description>
            <unit>degrees</unit>
            <dataType>real</dataType>
         </param>

         <param>
            <name>FORMAT</name>
            <description>
            Requested format of images.
         </description>
            <dataType>string</dataType>
         </param>

         <param>
            <name>CFRAME</name>
            <description>
            Coordinate frame: ICRS, FK5, FK4, GAL, ECL
         </description>
            <dataType>string</dataType>
         </param>

         <param>
            <name>EQUINOX</name>
            <description>
            Equinox used in FK4 or FK5 frames.

      </description>
            <dataType>real</dataType>
         </param>
      </interface>
   
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      <maxQueryRegionSize>
         <long>360.0</long>
         <lat>180.0</lat>
      </maxQueryRegionSize>
      
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         <long>360.0</long>
         <lat>180.0</lat>
      </maxImageExtent>

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	           <long>0</long>
	           <lat>73</lat>
	        </pos>
         <size>
	           <long>.1</long>
	           <lat>.1</lat>
	        </size>
      </testQuery>
      
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              </accessURL>
      </interface>
   </capability>
   <coverage>
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      <waveband>Radio</waveband>
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