Re: The Infrared Sky Goes Digital

In Article <[email protected]> Ron Baalke wrote:
> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/stars_galaxies/features/2mass.html
> The Infrared Sky Goes Digital
>
> ... While observations concluded in February 2001, the massive 
> data reduction efforts have continued at the Infrared Processing
> and Analysis Center on the Caltech campus. ...
>
> An Infrared Perspective
>
> Even well-known objects like the Orion Nebula take on striking
> new appearances. .. The Two Micron All-Sky Survey 
> observations open up the universe for studies of previously 
> unknown stars and lay bare the internal structures of distant 
> galaxies. ...
>
> The catalogues and images are distributed freely to the 
> astronomical community and the general public via the Internet. 
> Nearly half of the sky is currently available, and processing is 
> ongoing for the final data release, expected in late summer 2002.

So when are we going to get a peek at that part of the sky predicted by
the Zetas for March 3, 2003, and the part where an infrared object
appeared on Jan 19th in Haute-Provence and was later doctored into a
NEAT image taken the December prior?  We wait with baited breath!