Category Archives: Notices

Approximate Projections and Raw Cutouts

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Tess Jaffe

One feature that we’ve added to the underlying SkyView code recently is the ability to create approximate projections.  Several surveys in SkyView, the DSSn and NEAT include distortions in the projection plane that mean that the data cannot be accurately … Continue reading →

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SkyView cache problems

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Carina Kan

A data disk used to cache survey data filled up over the weekend resulting in the inability to generate images for many surveys. We have cleared space on the disk and SkyView is now back to normal.  We apologize for … Continue reading →

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SkyView updates

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Tess Jaffe

We are releasing a new version of SkyView today (2012-06-25). We’ve a separate article on the new INTEGRAL Galactic Plane surveys, but we’ve made some changes that affect many of the survey datasets. For each survey that we support, SkyView … Continue reading →

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SkyView using Xamin

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Tess Jaffe

Recently the HEASARC released a new more powerful interface to its catalog and archive, Xamin. We have just updated SkyView so that SkyView catalog queries of tables in the HEASARC databases are now being made through this new Xamin interface … Continue reading →

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New Fermi Surveys

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Tess Jaffe

We’re pleased to be able to provide a new set of Fermi surveys. Fermi is the highest energy survey in SkyView and heretofore we had been providing two bands of Fermi data, from 100 to 5450 MHz and 5450 MHz … Continue reading →

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SkyView links to WISE Preliminary Release Data

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Tess Jaffe

Data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Preliminary Release are now available in SkyView. WISE has made 4 all-sky surveys at 3.4, 4.6, 12 and 22 microns. The WISE surveys provide a remarkable picture of the sky in the … Continue reading →

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Short downtime

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Carina Kan

SkyView was unavailable for a couple of hours this morning due to hardware maintenance. We mistakenly thought that it would not affect the site so we did not give any advanced warning. We apologize for that and the inconvenience.

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Fermi Survey Files

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Tess Jaffe

The survey description files for the Fermi soft and hard surveys were improperly formatted so that users attempting to use the SkyView jar in batch mode would not be able to query these surveys.  The files have been updated in … Continue reading →

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SkyView Allsky Images from Gamma-ray to Radio

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Carina Kan

We have been thinking of ways to add more educational aspects to the SkyView website and our first step was to create a slide show of survey data that cover the entire sky. This first image set is in equatorial … Continue reading →

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SkyView system usage

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Carina Kan

The number of SkyView queries has increased by a factor of 5 over the last year and with our recent move to a virtual machine architecture we have been able to accommodate this growth. However we experienced a spike in … Continue reading →

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