Monthly Archives: August 2016

Continued SDSS issues

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

While remote access to the UKIDSS server was restored shortly after our last message we are continuing to have problems with the SDSS. In addition to the problems with the metadata found in the SDSS SIA service, there has been … Continue reading →

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Problems with UKIDSS and SDSS remote surveys

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

Over the past couple of days we have discovered problems in accessing two of our remote survey data sets. The UKIDSS simple image access service has been non-responsive. We’re hoping it comes up again soon. You can see the red … Continue reading →

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SkyView v3.2.0: Displaying quantitative survey information

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

In the home page in the new v3.2.0 you may notice a new line under the Survey Documentation link: Summary: CSV or Plot You can click on CSV to download a table of the information on all SkyView surveys. If … Continue reading →

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SkyView v3.2.0: Quantitative metadata

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

Version 3.2.0 of SkyView includes a new section, Quantitative, in the survey description file. This section is intended to capture machine-friendly quantitative characteristics of SkyView surveys. Diverse sources have been used for these and notes are included giving the source … Continue reading →

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SkyView V3.2.0: Survey descriptions downloaded on demand

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

The biggest change in v3.2.0 of SkyView is that survey description files are no longer part of the SkyView jar. In v3.1.21 we added a small file that retained the mapping between survey names and the description files they referred … Continue reading →

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SkyView v3.2.0: Some survey data removed from jar

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

SkyView-in-a-Jar users will note that the new v3.2.0 SkyView jar is much smaller than the earlier versions, under 4 megabytes compared to over 15 megabytes for v3.1.21. Part of the reason is that the way we access some older surveys … Continue reading →

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SkyView v3.2.0 Preview: Summary

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

Next week we will be releasing version 3.2.0 of SkyView. You can play with it right now if you specify the version v3.2.0 in the SkyView URL, but it’s still being tested. There are several major changes in this release … Continue reading →

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A Bit of a Speed Bump: V3.1.21

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Carina Kan

We have released a new version of SkyView (V3.1.21) which  includes changes in the way we gather meta data for image generation. When we build SkyView we  now create a single hash file which associates all survey names and aliases with the appropriate survey descriptions. … Continue reading →

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