# Program to get SDSS RGB images from an input table file import os import urllib # Change to directory where script is located abspath = os.path.abspath(__file__) dname = os.path.dirname(abspath) os.chdir(dname) catfile = open('UDGs.txt','r') for line in catfile: Name, RA, Dec = line.split() os.mkdir(Name) urlprefix = 'http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr13/SkyServerWS/ImgCutout/getjpeg?TaskName=Skyserver.Chart.Image&ra=' url = urlprefix+str(RA) url = url+'&dec='+str(Dec)+'&width=512&height=512&scale=0.4' imname = Name+'_RGB.jpg' image = urllib.URLopener() image.retrieve(url,str(dname)+'/'+Name+'/'+str(imname))