Tag Archives: SkyView-in-a-Jar

Recent Heavy SkyView Usage

For the past several weeks there has been very intense usage of SkyView by a small number of users which has degraded responsiveness for other users. Most of the requests seem to be coming from virtual machines using Amazon Web … Continue reading

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SkyView V3.2.3 Beware the Ides of March!

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 V3.2.0: Survey descriptions downloaded on demand

The biggest change in v3.2.0 of SkyView is that survey description files are no longer part of the SkyView jar. In v3.1.21 we added a small file that retained the mapping between survey names and the description files they referred … Continue reading

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SkyView v3.2.0: Some survey data removed from jar

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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SkyView v3.2.0 Preview: Summary

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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