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SkyView system downtime September 21-23

A significant downtime is currently planned for the weekend of September 21-23 to upgrade computer facilities.  HEASARC/SkyView services may be down for a substantial fraction of the weekend.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

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SkyView system usage

The number of SkyView queries has increased by a factor of 5 over the last year and with our recent move to a virtual machine architecture we have been able to accommodate this growth. However we experienced a spike in … Continue reading

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The SkyView Blog is back online

Due to issues that affected several local systems the SkyView name resolvers were unavailable for 2 days and the SkyView Blog was offline for 10 days. Currently all SkyView services are back online. We apologize for the inconvenience. To ensure … Continue reading

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Recent SkyView Availability issues

SkyView experienced two separate outages the last two days. 2MASS data were unavailable most of Tuesday due to the downtime of the remote system hosting the 2MASS survey data. The problems were resolved and 2MASS data are now available again … Continue reading

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Continuing SkyView Disk Repair

The final disk that appears to need repair is being worked on today. We have had to relocate the cache directories so queries that require access to remote systems (ie., FIRST, SDSS, Galex, 2MASS) will be slower as we re-transfer … Continue reading

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SkyView hardware woes

One of the constituent disks on a SkyView RAID system failed Monday evening. The disks are supposed to recover automatically from such a failure, but manifestly they did not and our operations personnel had to initiate recovery manually. Recovery activities … Continue reading

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GALEX GR4 data temporarily unavailable

GALEX UV survey GR4 images may not be available at this time due to hardware failure at the remote MAST site.  The most recent notice on the MAST website indicates data will not be available until the week of 8/25/08 … Continue reading

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SkyView Temporarily Unavailable August 18, 2008

SkyView operations were interrupted Monday afternoon August 18, 2008 due to a local network problem. The website was unavailable from approximately 4:00-8:00pm EST. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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