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Release 3.1.3: SkyView, DS9, Aladin and SAMP

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

For some while we’ve supported the Virtual Observatory Simple Application Messaging Protocol (SAMP) for SkyView when you are using the jar file. The idea is that you can run a command like: java -jar skyview.jar position=3c273 survey=dss samp=true and any … Continue reading →

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V3.1.2 released. Fixes to Mellinger survey

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

Version 3.1.2 of SkyView has been released. Three bugs all related to the Mellinger optical surveys have been fixed in this latest release. All relate to use of the the Mellinger data. The errors were present only in images of … Continue reading →

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SkyView Version 3.1.1: New GOODS Surveys

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

We have just released SkyView Version 3.1.1 which has a number of new surveys in the north and south GOODS regions. With this release SkyView includes GOODS data from the following Space Observatories: Chandra ACIS Hubble ACS Hubble NICMOS Spitzer … Continue reading →

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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 GOODS preview

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

We are currently in the process of rolling out 5 new surveys including 13 separate bands to enable SkyView users to take advantage of some of the deepest surveys that have been made of the sky. This is the biggest … 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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SkyView V3.0.0 released

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

During the past 24 hours we have released our new SkyView organization discussed in our prior article. All of the old URLs for queries should continue to work though most are now redirected. We did run into a couple of … Continue reading →

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New Release of SkyView

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Tess Jaffe

Next week we will be making a major new release of SkyView. This is primarily a structural release where we have centralized the organization of SkyView‘s files. Previously the operational SkyView services used code scattered through a number of directories: … Continue reading →

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