Category Archives: Notices

SkyView GALEX GR4: Off center images fixed.

A new version of SkyView has been installed to accommodate the issues that off center GALEX GR4 images presented. GALEX now uses a special GalexExposure Image finder. This uses knowledge of the GALEX survey to find the center of the … Continue reading

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Unexpected image offsets in the GALEX GR4

The underlying GALEX observations used in SkyView are 3840×3840 pixel images where only  a circle with a radius of about 2900 pixels is actually exposed.  In earlier releases the exposed region seemed to be centered with the image square but … Continue reading

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SkyView 2MASS data back online

The 2MASS survey data are available again via SkyView.

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SkyView SDSS and 2MASS data availability

The SDSS server connection problems that were reported earlier this week have been resolved. However again due to connection problems with the remote system that provides the data, 2MASS survey data are unavailable via SkyView. We have been in touch … Continue reading

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SkyView SDSS data are unavailable

Sloan Digitized Sky Survey images are not available at this time due to problems connecting to the remote server that hosts the SDSS data. We are investigating the problem and apologize for any inconvenience.

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SkyView Blog Comments Policy

We welcome comments on any SkyView blog entry. Comments are moderated. Comments whose primary purpose seems to be to link to some other site and are not responsive to the article will be rejected. Please contact us at the regular … Continue reading

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SkyView Gallery Update

To make the SkyView Image Gallery easier to navigate (and faster to load) we have split it up into pages with 18 images per page. Navigation links are at the bottom. Thanks to all of our SkyView users who have … Continue reading

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Full GALEX GR4 Available in SkyView

The operational version of SkyView now supports the full GALEX GR4 release. This includes a total of about 170,000 UV images of the sky. Total coverage is about 25,000 square degrees or well over half the sky. As discussed in … Continue reading

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New SkyView Image Gallery

We have added an Image Gallery to the site and we welcome your SkyView images. Just click the Add to Gallery button below your generated images and they will be added to the gallery and included in the pool of … Continue reading

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GALEX GR4 data temporarily unavailable

GALEX UV survey GR4 images may not be available at this time due to hardware failure at the remote MAST site.  The most recent notice on the MAST website indicates data will not be available until the week of 8/25/08 … Continue reading

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