This is a VO publication of LAMOST DR5 (there's DR6 and DR7 in the pipeline).
My current plan is to only host the most recent version at any time
(or so).

I got the spectra using
wget --recursive --no-parent http://dr5.lamost.org/v3/sas/fits/
in data, then moving the dated directories to data.  Warning: This takes
forever (as in weeks); for a new data release, we should arrange some other
means next time around.

The tables I pulled manually from http://dr5.lamost.org/catalogue, where
the descriptions come from
http://dr5.lamost.org/doc/data-production-description#toc_15

The test data set for the spectra is 20111024/F5902*-01[0-9].fits.gz.

The test data I generated with

stilts tpipe in=/data/gavo/inputs/lamost5/catalogues/a_catalogue.fits.gz cmd="every 10000" out=a_catalogue.fits
gzip a_catalogue.fits
stilts tpipe in=/data/gavo/inputs/lamost5/catalogues/afgk_catalogue.fits.gz cmd="every 10000" out=afgk_catalogue.fits
gzip afgk_catalogue.fits
stilts tpipe in=/data/gavo/inputs/lamost5/catalogues/general_catalogue.fits.gz cmd="every 10000" out=general_catalogue.fits
gzip general_catalogue.fits
stilts tpipe in=/data/gavo/inputs/lamost5/catalogues/m_catalogue.fits.gz cmd="every 10000" out=m_catalogue.fits
gzip m_catalogue.fits


Things I'd like to know:

* What's the "plan id"?
* How should I, really, iterpret a magtype like "BR1R2I"
* Or what about ugrizFuvUv -- that's a good deal more than 7 characters