Category Archives: Announce

SkyView v3.5.7 – Improvements to security and access to remote survey data

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Carina Kan

SkyView has been updated to v3.5.7.  This release includes security improvements and fixes to issues with accessing survey data from remote servers, particularly SDSS, SDSSdr7, and UKIDSS.

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SkyView v3.5.6 – Security updates and bug fixes

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Carina Kan

SkyView has been updated to v3.5.6 today.  This release mostly addresses various security vulnerabilities. It also features an updated header and footer, a fix to the 400 Bad Request Error (users should no longer receive this error or have to … Continue reading →

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SkyView v3.5.5 release with TESS data

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Tess Jaffe

We have just released the latest update to SkyView that now includes an additional optical dataset from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). This survey has covered roughly 90% of the sky in its first two years, aiming for 50 … Continue reading →

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SkyView V3.5.2: Updates and Bug Fixes

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Tess Jaffe

SkyView version 3.5.2 is now available for testing. There are two changes to surveys and one to the underlying code. The data for the GLEAM surveys has been updated with substantial improvements in coverage. The problem with the SDSS surveys … Continue reading →

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SkyView V3.4.5: New Surveys and Projection

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Tess Jaffe

We’re announcing a test release of SkyView V3.4.5. The new version includes the DRAO 22 MHz survey of most of the sky. This is now the lowest energy survey in SkyView. See Rogers et al, 1999 for details. In addition … Continue reading →

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SkyView V3.4.0: Handling Binary VOTables in SIAP data

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Tess Jaffe

Access to the TGSS ADR1 survey has taken a bit of a hit in the past couple of weeks. The TGSS data is served remotely by SkyView: we provide a resampling proxy to the underlying archive. As discussed in our … Continue reading →

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SkyView V3.3.4: GLEAM Survey and new features

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Tess Jaffe

SkyView V3.3.4 has just been released. The new version includes a set of maps from the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA Survey (GLEAM). The GLEAM survey was taken at the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and covers most of the sky … Continue reading →

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SkyView V3.3.2: Links to Mosaicking Inputs

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Tess Jaffe

Version 3.3.2 of SkyView has been released with two significant changes: updated memory limits, and links to data inputs. The parameters used to set the heap size limits for SkyView web requests have been updated so that users will generally … Continue reading →

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SkyView V3.3.1: Swift UVOT, UltraVista and CFHT HiPS data

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Tess Jaffe

We are about to release SkyView version 3.3.1.  This new version includes extended support for HiPS data and has many new surveys.  The primary new datasets are counts, intensity and exposure maps for the Swift UVOT instrument in seven filters.  … Continue reading →

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SkyView v3.3.0: Swift XRT surveys

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Tess Jaffe

Versions 3.3.0 of SkyView was released today.  This includes an all-sky mosaic of the Swift XRT observations.  Over 129,000 XRT observations were combined to give coverage of just under 6% of the sky.  A set of three surveys were produced: … Continue reading →

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