Category Archives: Discussion

SkyView Image Gallery – over 10,000 images

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Carina Kan

Did you know that the image displayed on the SkyView home page is a random image selected from the SkyView Image Gallery which features images created by SkyView users? If you click on the image you can see the specifics … Continue reading →

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Features in the Gallery: Image boundaries

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Tess Jaffe

One of the images that had gotten temporarily concealed in our Gallery was DSS2 Red: 2nd Digitized Sky Survey (Red) Center: 12 53 36, -60 20 00 Created: 2009-10-20 02:48:39 There are a couple of weird things going on here. … Continue reading →

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RGB Image Overlays using SkyView clients

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Carina Kan

SkyView provides two ways to generate images on local machines – the java based SkyView-in-a-Jar application and the Perl based skvbatch program. Most tasks are straight forward using either client. java -jar skyview.jar Position=m101  survey=DSS Return=jpg size=.25 Pixels=500 output=java_out skvbatch … Continue reading →

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Features in the Gallery: Saturn

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Carina Kan

This recently submitted image looks nothing like the ringed planet Saturn we all know and love. It turns out that there is a planetary nebula named the Saturn Nebula.  SkyView displays images of objects outside our solar system so when … Continue reading →

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Features in the Gallery: Color

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Tess Jaffe

There has been a whole series of beautiful color images posted to the Gallery recently. Some one (or ones) has been using SkyView‘s RGB capabilities to combine data from multiple surveys into color images. This first image of the center … Continue reading →

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Java for SkyView-in-a-Jar

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Carina Kan

Every now and then we receive emails from SkyView users reporting problems running the SkyView-in-a-Jar application (skyview.jar) on a local machine. Most of the time the problems are due to a mismatched version of java being used to run the … Continue reading →

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Features in the Gallery: Sometimes you can do better

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Tess Jaffe

The image from 2009-04-20 01:54:28 shows a typical IRAS 100 micron image: There’s a very detectable pattern of lines crossing the image from top left to bottom right. These are remnants of the scan lines used in taking the data. … Continue reading →

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Features in the Gallery: Space Frisbees?

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Tess Jaffe

This image from 2009-04-27 22:10:22 seems to show a lot of disks in the sky. What’s going on here? The image is taken from the ROSAT pointed observations. The ROSAT mission comprised two phases. In an initial phase the satellite … Continue reading →

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Long time, no see

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Tess Jaffe

SkyView development has been slowed by a concentration on some other work at the HEASARC, notably a new version of our main archive interface. However next week we’ll be releasing a new version which includes the HEALPix and WMAP data … Continue reading →

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Constellations in SkyView

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Tess Jaffe

One of astronomy’s primary links to the past are the constellations. We’ve just added a set of overlay files that you can use with SkyView’s standalone package to draw constellation boundaries over an image. You can download individual constellation files, … Continue reading →

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