Category Archives: Discussion

SkyView Surveys Summary

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

With the inclusion of multiple GOODS surveys we thought it might be useful to take a look at the overall properties of SkyView surveys. So here’s a summary of what we have in a few graphs. With the addition of … Continue reading →

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SkyView gets the GOODS

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

Next week we hope to begin releasing a whole new set of surveys in SkyView. These surveys are from the GOODS regions — the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey. Two regions of the sky (northern and southern hemispheres), relatively devoid … Continue reading →

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Features in the Gallery: Who’s the culprit?

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

This image below (from 2014-01-19) isn’t a mystery. We’re seeing a bright star through some secondary optical path. The star is out of focus — as secondary images normally are — and we see shadows from the optical and support … Continue reading →

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SkyView V3.0.0 released

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

During the past 24 hours we have released our new SkyView organization discussed in our prior article. All of the old URLs for queries should continue to work though most are now redirected. We did run into a couple of … Continue reading →

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SkyView, Bzip2 and the SDSS

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Tess Jaffe

A couple of years ago the Sloan Digital Sky Survey underwent a major reorganization and completely revamped its data. One of the changes that was made in the transition from SDSS DR7 to SDSS DR8 was that new releases were … Continue reading →

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We’re Back!

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Carina Kan

SkyView is back up and running!   We appreciate your patience while we were offline. Here’s a random image submitted by a SkyView user to our Image Gallery.  Enjoy!  

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SkyView Main Page Update

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Carina Kan

You may have noticed that the SkyView homepage has changed. We wanted to add a new feature and decided it was time for a little re-arranging. The new feature is a table listing SkyView local and remote surveys and their … Continue reading →

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Planck data in SkyView

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Tess Jaffe

This week we will be adding all-sky surveys from the Planck mission to SkyView. Planck provides nine all-sky images in the range from roughly 30-1000 GeV. While many Planck science goals relate to cosmology, Planck’s resolution approaches that of IRAS, … Continue reading →

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SkyView support for ZPN projection

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Tess Jaffe

As part of integrating UKIDSS data into SkyView, we have added support for the Zenithal Polynomial, ZPN, projection. In this projection the angular distance between a point on the sky and the reference position is transformed to a distance from … Continue reading →

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WMAP data accessible using SkyView Jar

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Tess Jaffe

We’ve made a small change to the way the WMAP data is described to allow it to be accessible either through the standard Web interface or to remote users using our SkyView Jar. Access isn’t quite the same as for … Continue reading →

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