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The Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX), a
Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
satellite, was launched in April 1996. The
first ten months of the mission were devoted to
mid-infrared observations with a solid
hydrogen-cooled telescope. This instrument had
five line-scanned focal plane arrays that
spanned the spectral region from 4.2 to 26
microns. For more info, see MSX mission background
information.
If you are looking for the original IRSA MSX
Image Server and Catalog Overlays, it can be
found
here.
Also available are MSX
image "cutouts"
using IRSA's
Cutouts Service, which is a general tool to create single or multiple small FITS
(and JPEGs) image cutouts of datasets archived at IRSA.
MSX images are available for the regions
shown above (an IRAS 100 micron ISSA image with a J2000
Equatorial grid is shown as background). In the
Galactic plane, some areas are available both
as standard mosaics and from higher sensitivity
images (shown in yellow). Images of galaxies,
star-forming
regions out of the Galactic plane are
indicated in yellow and IRAS
Gap regions in red. Either type in a
coordinate or click on a region to get a close
up of the MSX region; the size of the search is
adjustable.
For more info, see: Description
of Images
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