Category Archives: Notices

SkyView updates GALEX survey

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Carina Kan

Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) surveys have been updated to use the GALEX GR6 release. As mentioned in a previous post GR6 improvements include more sky coverage and a bit better calibration. Image generation for GALEX may be slow for a … Continue reading →

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New Fermi and GALEX surveys soon in SkyView

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Tess Jaffe

Over the next week or two we’ll be releasing a new and an updated survey set. The Fermi all-sky data will give us a major new image of the gamma-ray sky. Fermi has higher sensitivity and resolution than the EGRET … Continue reading →

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The SkyView Blog is back online

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Carina Kan

Due to issues that affected several local systems the SkyView name resolvers were unavailable for 2 days and the SkyView Blog was offline for 10 days. Currently all SkyView services are back online. We apologize for the inconvenience. To ensure … Continue reading →

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SkyView Service Interruption

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Carina Kan

SkyView will be unavailable for a limited time Tuesday (August 3, 2010) morning as we perform a hardware upgrade. We hope that the downtime will be short but it is possible that some remote survey data and SkyView services may … Continue reading →

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Continuing SkyView Disk Repair

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Carina Kan

The final disk that appears to need repair is being worked on today. We have had to relocate the cache directories so queries that require access to remote systems (ie., FIRST, SDSS, Galex, 2MASS) will be slower as we re-transfer … Continue reading →

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SkyView hardware woes

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Carina Kan

One of the constituent disks on a SkyView RAID system failed Monday evening. The disks are supposed to recover automatically from such a failure, but manifestly they did not and our operations personnel had to initiate recovery manually. Recovery activities … Continue reading →

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SkyView Image Gallery – missing images

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Carina Kan

Due to a programming bug SkyView images that were been submitted to the Image Gallery since the end of August 2009 have not been displayed.  The bug has been fixed and all submitted images now appear in the gallery. Thanks … Continue reading →

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SDSS DR7 now available

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Tess Jaffe

SkyView is now using the DR7 release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) surveys. It doesn’t appear that there is a big difference for SkyView between the DR6 and DR7 releases but there is a bit more coverage in … 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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SkyView 2MASS status

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Carina Kan

Due to a file system configuration problem some 2MASS images have been unavailable since December 17, 2008.  We are working to fix the situation and should have the 2MASS data back on line soon.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

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