Category Archives: Notices

More GOODS

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

We’ve just put out the preliminary version of SkyView V3.1.1 which has several more GOODS survey datasets: 8 new images of the north mostly from Gemini, three of south from the VLT ISAAC instrument, and five bands of Herschel data … Continue reading →

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SkyView V3.1.0 released

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

We’ve just released version 3.1.0 as the default version for SkyView. This includes 5 new GOODS surveys — a total of 13 new bands — and a little new infrastructure to support them as discussed in our previous articles. The … 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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SkyView V3.0.2 released

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

This release fixes a configuration error which made the VLSSr data unavailable.

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SkyView version 3.0.1 released.

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

This is a minor release mostly to fix the small glitches and omissions we found in our first operational use of our new release process. The one substantive change allows DSSx requests to continue when a corrupt tile is found … 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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Updated VLA FIRST Survey

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Tess Jaffe

We have updated the VLA FIRST data to include many new observations made available at the MAST archive. These are available immediately at our web site. If you would like to use the new data using SkyView-in-a-Jar please download the … Continue reading →

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Swift BAT 70 Month Survey Available in SkyView

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Tess Jaffe

A new release of the Swift BAT all sky survey is now available. This has data from the first 70 months of the Swift mission. It is much more sensitive than the 9 month surveys that we had heretofore. Both … 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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Gallery changes

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Tess Jaffe

We’re changing the way the User Image Gallery is organized so that you can use it more effectively. Previously we’d set up the gallery so that the last 9 images were on the first page, the previous nine on the … Continue reading →

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