Monthly Archives: March 2012

WISE All-Sky Data Available in SkyView

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Tess Jaffe

SkyView is now serving the data from the WISE All-Sky Data release. The main difference with the preliminary release is coverage on the ~40% of the sky that was missing in the earlier release. However the entire dataset has been … Continue reading →

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SkyView Surveys Summary: I

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Tess Jaffe

Recently we’ve been updating and systematizing some of the metadata we have on SkyView surveys, trying to make sure that we have consistent, quantitative description of each one. Some of the key metadata are the resolution of the survey on … Continue reading →

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What are people interested in? (2)

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Tess Jaffe

A few years ago we posted an image of the sky which showed what people have been looking at. Here’s an update giving the distribution of pixel centers for the last 10,000,000 or so SkyView images (about the last 18 … Continue reading →

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WISE versus IRAS

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Tess Jaffe

Just to see the incredible improvement WISE makes over the IRAS data here are two images of the same region (0.2×0.2 degrees at RA=2h 40m, Dec=20). The IRAS image (from the IRIS 12 micron survey) is very pixelated… There’s almost … Continue reading →

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