GALEX ivo://nasa.heasarc/skyview/galex NASA/GSFC HEASARC All data is downloaded from the <a href="https://galex.stsci.edu"> MAST GALEX archive</a>. Skyview Project 2026-10-02 SkyView Help Skyview at skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov surveys The GALEX, Galaxy Explorer, mission was launched by a Pegasus-XL vehicle on April 28 2003 into a 690km altitude, 29 degree inclination, circular orbit with a 98.6 minute period. The GALEX instrument allows imaging and spectroscopic observations to be made in two ultraviolet bands, Far UV (FUV) 1350-1780A and Near UV (NUV) 1770-2730A. The instrument provides simultaneous co-aligned FUV and NUV images with spatial resolution 4.3 and 5.3 arcseconds respectively. Details of the performance of the instrument and detectors can be found in Morrissey et al. (2007) ApJS, 173, 682. <p> The <i>SkyView</i> GALEX surveys mosaic the intensity images of All-Sky Survey images. For a given pixel only the nearest image is used. Since a given GALEX observation is circular, this maximizes the coverage compared with default image finding algorithms which use the distance from edge of the image. <p> As of February 10, 2011, SkyView uses the GALEX GR6 data release. Provenance: All data is downloaded from the <a href="https://galex.stsci.edu"> MAST GALEX archive</a>.. This is a service of NASA HEASARC. https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov Archive Research service-for HEASARC https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/vo/sia.pl?survey=galex& GET text/xml+votable POS Search Position in the form "ra,dec" where ra and dec are given in decimal degrees in the ICRS coordinate system. degrees real SIZE Size of search region in the RA and Dec. directions. degrees real FORMAT Requested format of images. string CFRAME Coordinate frame: ICRS, FK5, FK4, GAL, ECL string EQUINOX Equinox used in FK4 or FK5 frames. real Cutout 360.0 180.0 360.0 180.0 5000 10000000 500 0 0 1 1 https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/query.pl UV