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SkyView v3.5.7 – Improvements to security and access to remote survey data

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Carina Kan

SkyView has been updated to v3.5.7.  This release includes security improvements and fixes to issues with accessing survey data from remote servers, particularly SDSS, SDSSdr7, and UKIDSS.

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SkyView v3.5.6 – Security updates and bug fixes

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Carina Kan

SkyView has been updated to v3.5.6 today.  This release mostly addresses various security vulnerabilities. It also features an updated header and footer, a fix to the 400 Bad Request Error (users should no longer receive this error or have to … Continue reading →

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SkyView v3.2.0: Some survey data removed from jar

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Tess Jaffe

SkyView-in-a-Jar users will note that the new v3.2.0 SkyView jar is much smaller than the earlier versions, under 4 megabytes compared to over 15 megabytes for v3.1.21. Part of the reason is that the way we access some older surveys … 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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SkyView V3.1.14: VLA FIRST (1.4 GHz) survey update

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Carina Kan

SkyView version 3.1.14 has been released with a change that affects FIRST survey images. It was brought to our attention that some FIRST images generated using SkyView differed from images generated via the FIRST web server. We investigated and found … Continue reading →

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SkyView release v3.1.12

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Carina Kan

We have released SkyView v3.1.12  with 2 enhancements!  This new version adds social network sharing options to the SkyView Image Gallery  and a helpful option to the Overlays section of the main SkyView Query form. Facebook and Twitter Share buttons are now displayed with … Continue reading →

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SkyView bug fix and security improvements

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Carina Kan

A software update was released today that includes a bug fix and improvements to the user input validation process. The bug that was causing the name resolver argument to be ignored has been fixed.  Due to the bug all positions … Continue reading →

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New Release v2.4b

Posted on June 11, 2008 by Carina Kan

This afternoon we released the new Jar version 2.4b of SkyView. The changes are predominantly internal and are described in a previous post. However, there is one change that affects the SkyView web site. An old feature from the pre-java … Continue reading →

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New Release: V2.4

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Tess Jaffe

This afternoon we released the new Jar version 2.4 of SkyView. There have been a lot of incremental changes since our original release of 2.3. Today’s release includes new or enhanced support for 3 projections (Arc, Stg and Sfl) and … Continue reading →

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Reference Coordinates in Fixed Projections

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Tess Jaffe

SkyView treats a number of projections (Aitoff, Cartesian, Sansom-Flamsteed/Sinusoidal) as fixed projections. Regardless of the position you specify, the sky is projected to the plane in the same way. All that your coordinate entry changes is the center of the … Continue reading →

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