... The Digitized Sky Survey is now available on CD-ROMs and will be on the ST ScI archive. ... ST ScI has digitized Schmidt plates of the entire Sky. ... The software then accesses the data, decompresses the scans and returns the data in a form of a photographic intensity as a function of x and y plate pixel coordinates. ... accesses the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) CD ROMs and decompressed the data returning a photographic intensity as a function of x and y pixel coordinates. ...