Monthly Archives: July 2014

Babylon’s Legacy: Converting Decimal to Sexagesimal

It’s usually convenient to store and process angles and times in some simple decimal value, but we often wish to display them in a conventional sexagesimal notation or allow users to enter values that way. So we need to be … Continue reading

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V3.1.7: SkyView and Google Analytics

Today we will be releasing version 3.1.7 of SkyView. There are no changes to the user code, but the primary pages will now be instrumented so that usage will be tracked through Google Analytics. This implements the NASA general policy … Continue reading

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V3.1.6: RGB Images Bug Fix

The survey descriptions for a number of our surveys (notably including some of the DSS surveys and the IRAS and IRIS surveys) had an error in them that made it impossible to create RGB images if one of the affected … Continue reading

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