Category Archives: Notices

Amazon AWS access to SkyView blocked.

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Tess Jaffe

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WISE and 2MASS move to HTTPS

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Tess Jaffe

Access to data at IRSA recently has moved to requiring HTTPS URLs. This has broken SkyView’s access to the WISE and 2MASS surveys. We have just updated the URLs in the current version of SkyView to re-enable access to these … Continue reading →

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Recent Heavy SkyView Usage

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Tess Jaffe

For the past several weeks there has been very intense usage of SkyView by a small number of users which has degraded responsiveness for other users. Most of the requests seem to be coming from virtual machines using Amazon Web … Continue reading →

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v3.4.2: SIA bug accessing Swift fixed

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Tess Jaffe

There had been a problem accessing Swift UVOT and XRT data through the Simple Image Access (SIA) service.  These data are stored in HIPS format, and this bug affected only those. It should now be fixed. Note that this did … Continue reading →

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TGSS issue

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Tess Jaffe

A couple of users noticed that requests for data from the TGSS ADR1 survey were not working. We’ve tracked this down to a change in the URLs used at the archive in the Netherlands used to store the TGSS data. … 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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SkyView downtime October 4, 2016

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Carina Kan

SkyView was down from about 9:00am to 2:30pm today due to a problem encountered while updating the SkyView servers.  SkyView operations should now be back to normal. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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SkyView V3.2.1: SDSS and AKARI fixes

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

On Wednesday we released SkyView version 3.2.1 to fix the SDSS survey. It includes a new capability where when we are using an SIA service we can apply a regular expression transformation to the URLs being returned. We use this … Continue reading →

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Continued SDSS issues

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

While remote access to the UKIDSS server was restored shortly after our last message we are continuing to have problems with the SDSS. In addition to the problems with the metadata found in the SDSS SIA service, there has been … Continue reading →

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Problems with UKIDSS and SDSS remote surveys

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

Over the past couple of days we have discovered problems in accessing two of our remote survey data sets. The UKIDSS simple image access service has been non-responsive. We’re hoping it comes up again soon. You can see the red … Continue reading →

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