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SkyView v3.5.3 updates and bug fixes

Posted on July 27, 2020 by Tess Jaffe

SkyView has been updated to v3.5.3 today.  This version has changes to the following surveys:  GLEAM now includes the Galactic plane data as well as the Magellanic Clouds; and the UKIDSS survey is now using DR11 (previously DR8) and including … Continue reading →

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SkyView v3.5.0: Compound surveys

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Tess Jaffe

We announced a test release of SkyView v3.4.5 a few weeks ago, but in trying out the new version we recognized that it did not do what we wanted. In particular we had added new surveys that were the Stokes … Continue reading →

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Updated survey documentation for SkyView v3.4.3

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Tess Jaffe

We have updated the survey documentation page. It had gotten out of date and was missing some survey information. The Contents listing the available surveys by wavelength regime had been incomplete but is now generated automatically from all of the … Continue reading →

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SkyView in a Jar file size fixed

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Tess Jaffe

The SkyView in a Jar file has been overly large lately. (We mistakenly included a bunch of unnecessary files when building the jar last time.) This has now been fixed so that the file size is back down to roughly … 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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Problems accessing WISE data

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Tess Jaffe

For the past couple of weeks SkyView has not been able access data from the WISE archive. SkyView queries for  WISE images in regions already in our cache worked fine, but users who requested a new region got back a … Continue reading →

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SkyView 2MASS data interruption March 1, 2011

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Carina Kan

The remote system that serves 2MASS data was down for scheduled maintenance for a couple hours today. As of 3:50pm EST service has been restored and 2MASS data is again available in SkyView. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Clip resampling of intensive quantities in SkyView

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Tess Jaffe

The SkyView web page now has two different options for using the Clip resampler. The clip resampler computes the overlaps between the user image’s output pixels and the original survey pixels and adds up the contributions from each overlap. The … Continue reading →

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Recent SkyView Availability issues

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Carina Kan

SkyView experienced two separate outages the last two days. 2MASS data were unavailable most of Tuesday due to the downtime of the remote system hosting the 2MASS survey data. The problems were resolved and 2MASS data are now available again … Continue reading →

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SkyView moved to new VM architecture

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Tess Jaffe

The operational SkyView machines have been moved to a virtualized environment. The numeric IP address for SkyView has been changed to 129.164.179.52. This actually points to a load balancer on top of several virtual machines. The new machines are already … Continue reading →

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