Monthly Archives: April 2009

Features in the Gallery: Sometimes you can do better

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Tom

The image from 2009-04-20 01:54:28 shows a typical IRAS 100 micron image: There’s a very detectable pattern of lines crossing the image from top left to bottom right. These are remnants of the scan lines used in taking the data. … Continue reading →

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Features in the Gallery: Space Frisbees?

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Tom

This image from 2009-04-27 22:10:22 seems to show a lot of disks in the sky. What’s going on here? The image is taken from the ROSAT pointed observations. The ROSAT mission comprised two phases. In an initial phase the satellite … Continue reading →

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Long time, no see

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Tom

SkyView development has been slowed by a concentration on some other work at the HEASARC, notably a new version of our main archive interface. However next week we’ll be releasing a new version which includes the HEALPix and WMAP data … Continue reading →

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