New ImageFinders and Faster FITS
The GALEX release was accompanied by a few other changes. The one that some users may notice is that for surveys where the data is gzip compressed, SkyView should be a little faster. SkyView was...
View ArticleDuplicate EPOCHs in GALEX data
If you’ve tried the new GALEX survey from the command line, you may have noticed some messages Warning: Multiple occurrences of key: EPOCH popping up. Many of the GALEX FITS files have two EPOCH...
View ArticleFITS Header Issue
In some cases SkyView has been including newline characters in FITS headers. This is a violation of the FITS standards and apparently confuses some tools about subsequent header records. We’ve put in a...
View ArticleSkyView support for ZPN projection
As part of integrating UKIDSS data into SkyView, we have added support for the Zenithal Polynomial, ZPN, projection. In this projection the angular distance between a point on the sky and the reference...
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