Great Balls of Fire! | 30 Apr 2021

Asteroid - meteor - meteorite. Some space rocks get to be all three, but very rarely do we get to study each of those stages for a single object. The transition of the asteroid, 2018 LA, into the meteorite, "Motopi Pan", is just the second time that an asteroid has been detected in space prior to impact and then its pieces have been collected from the ground. The first was in 2008, when meteorites from the asteroid 2008 TC3 were collected from the sands of Sudan. In 2018, SkyMapper got to play a small, but important, role in the story of 2018 LA ...

Gaia eDR3 and SkyMapper X-matches Now Available | 29 Jan 2021

We are pleased to announce that the Gaia Early Data Release 3 (eDR3) gaia_source table is now available via the SkyMapper node of the All-Sky Virtual Observatory. In addition to the native table columns, the SkyMapper node offers the source_id and distance to the next two closest sources from the table, as well as the number of additional eDR3 sources within 15".

For the SkyMapper DR2 and DR3 master tables, we have also added the closest two eDR3 sources and their distances, and the count of eDR3 sources within 15".

ASVO Maintenance Period - 5 Jan 2021, 8am-6pm (AEDT) | 4 Jan 2021

The SkyMapper node of the All-Sky Virtual Observatory (ASVO) will be offline between 8am and 6pm AEDT on 5 January. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Upcoming ASVO Downtime | 24 Nov 2020

The SkyMapper node of the All-Sky Virtual Observatory will be offline from 5pm on 26 November (AEDT) for a period of up to 5 days. This is due to urgent maintenance on the file storage systems at the National Computational Infrastructure.

In particular, we anticipate the image cutout service (including postage stamps displayed in the Object Viewer) will be unavailable during that time. Cone search and catalogue queries may still work, but the full functionality of those services is not certain.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Upcoming SkyMapper ASVO Downtime | 25 Sep 2020

The SkyMapper node of the All-Sky Virtual Observatory will be undergoing maintenance activities on 30 Sep and 1 Oct, and may be offline during that period. This downtime will allow the National Computational Infrastructure to migrate the services to a new cloud system and perform maintenance on the data storage systems.

We apologise for any inconvenience.