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SkyView V3.3.4: GLEAM Survey and new features

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Tess Jaffe

SkyView V3.3.4 has just been released. The new version includes a set of maps from the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA Survey (GLEAM). The GLEAM survey was taken at the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and covers most of the sky … Continue reading →

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SkyView V3.3.2: Links to Mosaicking Inputs

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Tess Jaffe

Version 3.3.2 of SkyView has been released with two significant changes: updated memory limits, and links to data inputs. The parameters used to set the heap size limits for SkyView web requests have been updated so that users will generally … Continue reading →

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SkyView V3.3.1: Swift UVOT, UltraVista and CFHT HiPS data

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Tess Jaffe

We are about to release SkyView version 3.3.1.  This new version includes extended support for HiPS data and has many new surveys.  The primary new datasets are counts, intensity and exposure maps for the Swift UVOT instrument in seven filters.  … 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 V3.2.3 Beware the Ides of March!

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Carina Kan

Over the next few days (as early as noon 3/15) the SkyView servers will be transitioning to requiring secure HTTP, i.e., HTTPS, URLs to access SkyView services.  This is part of a mandated transition of all NASA (and indeed all … Continue reading →

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SkyView update: v3.2.2 including HI4PI data

Posted on December 13, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

On Tuesday Dec. 13, 2016, we updated SkyView to v3.2.2 in order to include the new HI4PI radio survey. This dataset is the atomic neutral hydrogen (HI) column density map derived from HI4PI (|Vlsr| < 600 km/s). It includes the … Continue reading →

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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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SkyView v3.2.0 Preview: Summary

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

Next week we will be releasing version 3.2.0 of SkyView. You can play with it right now if you specify the version v3.2.0 in the SkyView URL, but it’s still being tested. There are several major changes in this release … Continue reading →

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A Bit of a Speed Bump: V3.1.21

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Carina Kan

We have released a new version of SkyView (V3.1.21) which  includes changes in the way we gather meta data for image generation. When we build SkyView we  now create a single hash file which associates all survey names and aliases with the appropriate survey descriptions. … Continue reading →

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AKARI and TGSS ADR1 in SkyView: V3.1.20

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

Two new surveys sets have been added to the next release of SkyView (v3.1.20): Four new infrared all-sky surveys taken by the AKARI FIS (wavelengths between 60 and 160 microns) are now available. We have also added the TGSS ADR1 … Continue reading →

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