Rubin Observation Data

This was posted in the Discovery Alliance slack channel as well.

Hello everyone,We are happy to announce you can now find the entire list of observations made by Rubin to the Minor Planet Center on our website. We have received multiple requests from the community to help make the Vera C. Rubin Observatory observations easily accessible while the pipeline data products are still being developed. Here you can find both complete and daily partitioned data available as csv, parquet, and a sqlite db. These contain all the observations in the Minor Planet Center database, made available via the Small Bodies Node MPC mirror. If you are looking for more robust access to Minor Planet Center data, not limited to Rubin (X05), we recommend using our BigQuery replica. Our goal was to get this out quickly, and I’m sure many of you will have excellent feedback and suggestions. Please reach out with requests or thoughts and we will do our best to accommodate. It’s my understanding that there will be an effort to get this data directly on the RSP as well.

Cheers,
Alec on behalf of Asteroid Institute

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