SkyMapper Southern Sky Survey

Web-based ASVO access currently offline (Rectified) | 20 Apr 2018

Access to the SkyMapper node of the ASVO through this website is currently offline. You can continue to query SkyMapper DR1 through alternative VO Tools like TOPCAT and Aladin (see the How To Access page).

We hope to restore website functionality soon, and we apologise for any inconvenience.

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Maintenance Period - 3 Apr 2018 (Complete) | 21 Mar 2018

On Tuesday, 3 April 2018, the SkyMapper node of the ASVO will be offline during quarterly maintenance at the National Computational Infrastructure. The query tools (image, catalogue, and cone-search) will be down from 8am-6pm (AEST).

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SkyMapper Data Release 1.1 available worldwide | 14 Dec 2017

The SkyMapper team are pleased to announce that Data Release 1 has been upgraded to Data Release 1.1. DR1.1 offers a significant improvement in the homogeneity of photometric calibration across the Southern sky, with the trade-off of a slightly-reduced sky coverage. Data queries against our cone search, image cutout and TAP services will now return DR1.1 data only. DR1.0 data are still available through out TAP service - look for table names containing dr1p0.

DR1.1 has been released to the worldwide public. Astronomers all over the world are now able to download SkyMapper data via this ...

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Maintenance Period - Nov 2017 (Complete) | 27 Nov 2017

The SkyMapper ASVO services will be offline for a few days from 27 November for database maintenance. Neither the image cutouts nor catalogue queries are expected to be operational during this period.

The services are back online as of 9:30am, 29 Nov.

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News coverage of GW170817 neutron star collision | 19 Oct 2017

The first-ever detection of the merger of a pair of compact neutron stars has garnered worldwide media attention. This is a non-exhaustive list of some of the new articles covering SkyMapper and Australian involvement in the discovery.