# Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS)

## What is Pan-STARRS?
[Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS)](http://pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/) is a system for wide-field astronomical imaging developed 
and operated by the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii.
Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) is the first part of Pan-STARRS to be completed and is the basis 
for both Data Releases 1 and 2 (DR1 and DR2). 
The PS1 survey used a 1.8 meter telescope and its 1.4 Gigapixel camera (GPC1; see 
[PS1 GPC1 camera](https://outerspace.stsci.edu/spaces/PANSTARRS/pages/298812301/PS1+GPC1+camera)) 
to image the sky in five broadband [filters](https://outerspace.stsci.edu/display/PANSTARRS/PS1+Filter+properties) (g, r, i, z, y). The PS1 Science Consortium funded the operation of the Pan-STARRS1 telescope, situated at Haleakala Observatories near the summit of 
Haleakala in Hawaii, for the purposes of astronomical research. 
The PS1 consortium is made up of astronomers and engineers from 
[14 institutions from six countries](https://outerspace.stsci.edu/spaces/PANSTARRS/pages/298812469/PS1+Science+Consortium+-+PS1SC). 

The data from PS1 are archived at the [Space Telescope Science Institute](http://www.stsci.edu/) (STScI) in Baltimore Maryland, and can be accessed through MAST, the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (see the [Pan-STARRS1 Data Archive](https://outerspace.stsci.edu/display/PANSTARRS/Pan-STARRS1+data+archive+home+page)). Additional support for the PS1 public science archive is provided by the [Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation](https://www.moore.org/).

## For Further Reading

The [Pan-STARRS1 Data Archive at MAST](https://outerspace.stsci.edu/display/PANSTARRS/Pan-STARRS1+data+archive+home+page) website contains summary information, data product overviews, descriptions of MAST tools, and tutorials on how to interact with PS1 data at MAST.

For more general information regarding Pan-STARRS1, see the [MAST Pan-STARRS1 homepage](https://archive.stsci.edu/missions-and-data/pan-starrs), and the [Pan-STARRS system homepage](http://pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/).

## Notebooks in this Chapter


| Notebook / Tutorial Set     | Description                                                                                                                                                  |
|-----------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [MAST Table Access Protocol Pan-STARRS1 DR2 Tutorial](https://spacetelescope.github.io/mast_notebooks/notebooks/PanSTARRS/PS1_DR2_TAP/PS1_DR2_TAP.html) | Tutorial demonstrating how to access Pan-STARRS 1 Data Release 2 catalogs via a Virtual Observatory standard Table Access Protocol (TAP) service at MAST. |
| [Retrieving Pan-STARRS images Tutorial](https://spacetelescope.github.io/mast_notebooks/notebooks/PanSTARRS/PS1_image/PS1_image.html) | Tutorial of how to programmatically retrieve Pan-STARRS1 image cutouts using the PS1 Image Server at MAST. |
| [Pan-STARRS "20 queries" Tutorials](https://spacetelescope.github.io/mast_notebooks/notebooks/PanSTARRS/PS1_20_query_tutorials/panstarrs_20_query_tutorials.html) | Tutorials with examples of how to answer select scientific questions through queries to the PS1 DR2 catalogs using the Table Access Protocol (TAP) service at MAST. |
| ["Query chunking" Tutorial with Pan-STARRS](https://spacetelescope.github.io/mast_notebooks/notebooks/PanSTARRS/PS1_query_chunking/PS1_query_chunking.html) | Tutorial demonstrating how to approach splitting up, and then submitting (mostly serially), queries that are too large or long-running to be executed as a single query with MAST's PS1 Table Access Protocol (TAP) service. |