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\item new FERENGI    A consequence of the wide redshift range of the galaxies in GZH/GZH2 is that there is a non-uniform level of classification bias amongst the vote fractions. On average, the more distant galaxies have smaller, dimmer, and less-resolved cut-out images, making it more difficult to identify finer morphological features. In GZH this bias was corrected for the first question by quantifying the drop in the $p_{features}$ vote fraction as a function of surface brightness and redshift in a set of simulated images. The set was constructed using 288 SDSS galaxies which were artificially redshifted from $z=0.3$ to $z=1.0$ in increments of $\Delta z =0.1$. The simulated high redshift images, along with the original galaxy images, were classified in Galaxy Zoo using the same interface and decision tree as GZH. From these data, the change in the vote fraction $p_{features}$ as a function of redshift and surface brightness was measured, and from that a correction term was applied to the galaxies in the GZH sample.  GZH2 will also use FERENGI images to correct for redshift bias, but the process will incorporate several improvements from the GZH method. First, the selection of SDSS galaxies to include in the FERENGI sample will be chosen to better overlap the HST galaxies in surface brightness and redshift distributions. Because corrections to the vote fractions were calculated in discrete bins of surface brightness and redshift, it was necessary to have a large number of FERENGI images in \emph{each} bin. In GZH, the distributions of surface brightness and redshift of the FERENGI images was offset from the space occupied by the HST galaxies (see Figure~\ref{fig:eyeofsauron}); for this reason corrections could not be applied to vote fractions for many HST galaxies, which occupied surface brightness-redshift spaces which did not overlap with the FERENGI data. Because of this limitation, 25\% of GZH could not be corrected for redshift bias. The new FERENGI sample will be selected to maximize the overlap of this space, to correct the maximum number of galaxies in GZH2.  \item in-browser fitting tool  \end{enumerate}  \item Description of final catalog, how to be used by public