Monthly Archives: March 2014

Release 3.1.3: SkyView, DS9, Aladin and SAMP

For some while we’ve supported the Virtual Observatory Simple Application Messaging Protocol (SAMP) for SkyView when you are using the jar file. The idea is that you can run a command like: java -jar skyview.jar position=3c273 survey=dss samp=true and any … Continue reading

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V3.1.2 released. Fixes to Mellinger survey

Version 3.1.2 of SkyView has been released. Three bugs all related to the Mellinger optical surveys have been fixed in this latest release. All relate to use of the the Mellinger data. The errors were present only in images of … Continue reading

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SkyView Surveys Summary

With the inclusion of multiple GOODS surveys we thought it might be useful to take a look at the overall properties of SkyView surveys. So here’s a summary of what we have in a few graphs. With the addition of … Continue reading

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SkyView Version 3.1.1: New GOODS Surveys

We have just released SkyView Version 3.1.1 which has a number of new surveys in the north and south GOODS regions. With this release SkyView includes GOODS data from the following Space Observatories: Chandra ACIS Hubble ACS Hubble NICMOS Spitzer … Continue reading

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