This past Spring I revived an old project to build some kind of professionally and statistically useful atlas of galaxies from the SDSS data. I spent some time today in the wilderness planning the stages of the project. When I look at the non-triviality of doing a good job on it, I think that even the infrastructure work required to generate the Atlas will produce several publications. First order of business: Get The Tractor running on very (angularly) large galaxies in the SDSS to measure their properties consistently.
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