SKY-MAP.ORG / WIKISKY » surveys http://blog.wikisky.org project news and updates Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:32:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 GALEX survey updated to GR5 http://blog.wikisky.org/2009/09/25/87/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=87 http://blog.wikisky.org/2009/09/25/87/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:16:32 +0000 WikiSky http://blog.sky-map.org/?p=87 We have updated our ultraviolet GALEX survey with the latest GR5 (http://galex.stsci.edu/GR4/) release. It contains 870 new tiles of sky coverage from the primary mission surveys.  In addition, 266 GR4 tiles were delivered with extended exposure times. Since GR5 was processed with the same pipeline as GR4, it may be considered a supplement to GR4. You can access updated survey following this link: http://www.wikisky.org/?zoom=1&img_source=GALEX

]]> http://blog.wikisky.org/2009/09/25/87/feed/ 2 GALEX is on-line http://blog.wikisky.org/2008/12/20/galex-is-on-line/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=galex-is-on-line http://blog.wikisky.org/2008/12/20/galex-is-on-line/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:08:19 +0000 WikiSky http://blog.sky-map.org/?p=45  

M31 on GALEX sky survey

M31 on "bubble-like" GALEX sky survey

 

 

GALEX survey is now available on all WikiSky servers. The response might be a bit slow on first deep-zoom view of non-popular areas as full resolution images are downloaded and cached locally on demand.

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Helix Nebula in ultraviolet (GALEX)

 

M33 (Triangulum Galaxy) on GALEX

M33 (Triangulum Galaxy) on GALEX

We’re about to finish work on new high resolution all sky survey – GALEX. The Galaxy Evolution Explorer is an orbiting space telescope observing galaxies in ultraviolet light across 10 billion years of cosmic history. GALEX GR4 imaging data contains about 31,200 2 color band frames with round image area of 2900 pixels in diameter each. It’s our third largest survey with its 200,000 megapixles of data after SDSS (1,100,000 MPixels) and DSS2 (800,000 MPixels). For now GALEX survey is available on two servers – server3.wikisky.org and server7.wikisky.org

 


]]> http://blog.wikisky.org/2008/12/19/galex/feed/ 4 Sloan Digital Sky Survey local hosting http://blog.wikisky.org/2008/12/18/sloan-digital-sky-survey-local-hosting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sloan-digital-sky-survey-local-hosting http://blog.wikisky.org/2008/12/18/sloan-digital-sky-survey-local-hosting/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:48:21 +0000 WikiSky http://blog.sky-map.org/?p=28 We’ve added to WikiSky ability to cut images from  SDSS (DR7) locally. WikiSky is still using exetrnal cutout tool (casjobs.sdss.org) for SDSS DR6,5,4 and 3. The problem with casjobs is that it has limited projection options that causes siginificant alignment problems when you move far away from projection center. Our image cutout tool has rich projections options, including multiple geometric projections, rotation, reverse, projection center shift and more. Also we’ve added ability to view object on every available SDSS frame. When you open info page of an object you’ll see list of SDSS frames with the object right after list of astro image thumbnails. By clicking on one of the frames you’ll see full SDSS survey with the selected frame in foreground.

]]> http://blog.wikisky.org/2008/12/18/sloan-digital-sky-survey-local-hosting/feed/ 1 Sloan Digitial Sky Survey updated http://blog.wikisky.org/2008/11/25/sloan-digitial-sky-survey-updated/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sloan-digitial-sky-survey-updated http://blog.wikisky.org/2008/11/25/sloan-digitial-sky-survey-updated/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:24:09 +0000 WikiSky http://blog.sky-map.org/?p=24 We published new data release of SDSS sky survey (SDSS DR7). We also opened access to previous sky surveys since DR3 and added ability to show SDSS survey in wide angle. Before there was limitation to show survey in zoom level 6 and deeper due to angle restriction on remote server that hosts the survey’s images (SkyServer). After recent upgrade (thanks to everyone who supporting us) we’ve been able to upload wide angle images on our servers and fill the gap in survey rendering.

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