SkyView : Resource Record Summary

Resource Record Summary

Image Service:
SkyView Virtual Observatory

Short name: SkyView IVOA Identifier: ivo://nasa.heasarc/skyview/skyviewPublisher: NASA/GSFC HEASARC ivo://nasa.heasarc/ASD[Pub. ID] More Info: https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.	Status: active Registered: 2007 Jan 16 00:00:00Z
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Description

SkyView is a Virtual Observatory on the Net. Astronomers can generate images of any portion of the sky at wavelengths in all regimes from radio to gamma-ray. Users tell SkyView the position, scale and orientation desired, and SkyView gives users an image made to their specification. The user need not worry about transforming between equinoxes or coordinate systesm, mosaicking submaps, rotating the image,.... SkyView handles these geometric issues and lets the user get started on astronomy.

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About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: NASA/GSFC HEASARC ivo://nasa.heasarc/ASD[Pub. ID]

Creator: Thomas McGlynn

Contributors:

Laura McDonald
Keith Scollick

Contact Information:

X SkyView Help
Email: skyview at skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov

Status of This Resource

This section provides some status information: the resource version, availability, and relevant dates.

Version: n/a
Availability: This is an active resource.

This service apparently provides only public data

Relevant dates for this Resource:

Created: 2004 Nov 01

This resource was registered on: 2007 Jan 16 00:00:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2021 Apr 06 00:00:00Z

What This Resource is About

This section describes what the resource is, what it contains, and how it might be relevant.

Resource Class: CatalogService: This resource is a service that provides access to data (specifically, images). With this type of service, you can search for data by issuing a query, and information about available data is returned as a table.

Resource type keywords: Archive	Subject keywords: surveys
Intended audience or use: Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov
Related Resources: This is a service for accessing data from: NASA Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics ivo://nasa.heasarc/LHEA [Res. ID]

	Data Coverage Information
	This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time. Reference Coordinate System: UTC-ICRS-TOPOXXivo://STClib/CoordSys#UTC-ICRS-TOPO[Res. ID] Sky Coverage: Regions covered: All-sky: The data from this resource is distributed over the entire sky. Wavebands covered: Radio Infrared Optical UV X-ray Gamma-ray

Available Service Interfaces

Simple Image AccessXX

This is a standard IVOA service used to search for images from this resource that overlap with a specified region of the sky.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for the standard interface:

https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/vo/sia.pl?

Image service type: Cutout: images will be cut out to match the requested region.
Maximum query region accepted: no size limit
Maximum region size returned: no size limit
Maximum image size returned: X pixels
Maximum image size returned: 10 MB
Maximum number of matching records returned: 500