The VLA FIRST (Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters)
is a project designed to produce the radio equivalent
of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey over 10,000 square
degrees of the North Galactic Cap. The
<a href="https://sundog.stsci.edu/top.html"> FIRST home page </a>
has details of the instrumentation, status of the project,
and data available. Currently about 5000 images
of approximately .775x.58 degrees are available.
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These FIRST data have been retrieved from the
<a href="ftp://archive.stsci.edu/pub/vla_first/data/"> FIRST FTP archive
</a> at the
<a href="https://www.stsci.edu/resources"> Space Telescope Science Institute</a>.
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The FIRST survey is included on the <b>SkyView High Resolution Radio
Coverage </b><a href="/images/high_res_radio.jpg"> map</a>. This map shows
coverage on an Aitoff projection of the sky in equatorial coordinates. Provenance: The FIRST project team: R.J. Becker, D.H. Helfand, R.L. White
M.D. Gregg. S.A. Laurent-Muehleisen.. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.