SkyBoT

Release Notes

2024
2024-11-16 Modification of HTTP codes returned in certain cases: 204 (No Content) instead of 422 (Unprocessable Content) when no object is resolved or found in a FoV, 400 (Bad Request) instead of 422 (Unprocessable Content) when the value of required parameters (e.g. epoch, RA, DEC) is missing.
2024-11-06 Changing external link toward Vizier to point to SsoDNet ssoCard in VOTable output. Adding links to hint target in SsODNet quaero and ssoCard in JSON output.
2024-10-30 Correction of the Spice kernel loading used to calculate the ephemerides of certain satellites of Saturn.
2024-10-18 Implementation of version 1.1 of the IVOA Simple Cone Search protocol.
2024-10-18 Shape correction of the field of view for high declinations.
2024-03-06 ConeSearch and Resolver now available for an observer located onboard Euclid spacecraft.
2023
2023-07-11 Documentation update.
2023-05-24 Documentation update.
2022
2022-10-13 Minor issues fixed.
2021
2021-11-22 SkyBoT service now based on Eproc-4.3 library.
2020
2020-09-16 SkyBoT software now based on Eproc-4.2 library.
2020-03-21 Deployement of SkyBoT-2.0 service on VO-SSP portal.
2019
2019-11-05 Correction of the external link to ViZieR in VOTable output.
2019-09-30
  • Adding the geo URI as possible format to provide the geographic coordinates of an observer.
  • Adding ticket in the VOTable output.
2019-09-08 Migration of SkyBoT code to PHP-7.
2019-05-08 ConeSearch and Resolver now available for an observer located onboard TESS spacecraft.
2019-02-18 Correction of the default value of argument objFilter.
2019-02-12 Set up of a version of SkyBoT dedicated to the SWG-SSO of the Euclid project.
2019-01-30 Added the prefix dp for the Dwarf planets.
2018
2018-12-02 Minor bug fix.
2018-05-11 UAI codes for space probes are taken into account.
2018-01-08 ConeSearch and Resolver now available for an observer located at the Sun-Earth L2 point.
2017
2017-07-09 Extension to ecliptic coordinates of the conesearch and resolver methods through the argument refsys.
2017-04-14 Minor bug fix.
2017-02-25 Update of documentation.
2017-02-16 Update of the asteroid population classification.
2016
2016-12-19 Minor bug fix.
2016-11-12 Update of the asteroid population classification.
2016-10-19 Update of the documentation.
2016-10-15 Update of the output to VOTable version 1.3.
2016-05-25 Update of the documentation.
2016-05-14 Set up of a version of SkyBoT dedicated to the Rosetta's OSIRIS camera instrument.
2016-03-31 Minor bug fix in the VOTable output (arraysize).
2015
2015-11-17
  • ConeSearch and Resolver now available for an observer located onboard Kepler spacecraft (NAIF code -227)
  • ConeSearch and Resolver now available for an observer located onboard Rosetta spacecraft (NAIF code -226)
2015-06-05 Addition of two hidden fields into the VOTable output of Skybot.ConeSearch method: _RAJ2000 and _DECJ2000, respectively the astrometric J2000 right ascension and declination of the Sso, both expressed in degrees. The fields are added at the end of the existing fields. This fixes the issue of the drawing of proper motion vectors into Aladin software.
2014
2014-10-01 Update and improvement of the cone-search and resolver methods for comets
2014-10-01 Update and improvement of the getAsterClass method which provides the classification of asteroids
2014-10-01 Adoption of a new classification of the asteroid population.
2013
2013-09-05 Improvement of the query form, and bugs fix.
2013-06-01 Commissioning of two new servers dedicated to the VO Web services.
2012
2012-12-27 Change of the type (from double to string) of the parameter epoch of the Web service, to extend the choice of possible epoch formats into requests. The epoch can now be formatted as a textual english date (in accordance with the GNU syntax of dates), as a julian day or as an ISO 8601 date.
2012-12-15 Simplification of the VOTABLE when an error occurs
2011
2011-12-27 Correction of the UCD of the fields Mv (becomes phot.mag;em.opt.V), dRA (becomes pos.pm;pos.eq.ra), and dDEC (becomes pos.pm;pos.eq.dec)
2011-11-11 Renewal of the process to update cometary orbits; Update of the documentation
2011-03-25 Display of geometric phase in radian instead of degree has been fixed
2011-03-11 Bug created by the character ´ in asteroid names has been fixed
2010
2010-01-20 Addition of the argument -top/TOP in the HTTP service Skybot.conesearch.
2010-01-05 Upgrade of the Broadcast button of the query form to (WebSampConnector-1.4).
2010-01-02 Update of the Web service documentation.
2009
2009-12-15 Correction of the erroneous namespace in VOTable 1.2 definition.
2009-12-12 Addition of a specific error message when the database is temporarily unavailable
2009-12-11 Improvement of the configuration of the monitoring of the service: management of temporary unavailability
2009-12-04 Official startup of SkyBoT 2 for a 30 days test phase.
2009-12-02 Correction of the output format of RA and DEC (sexagesimal -> decimal) of the resolver for mime=text
2009-11-08 Correction of the bug 'filter=0' in the method Skybot.conesearch.
2009-11-01 SkyBoT 2 RC1: test phase and request for comments for a period of 30 days.
2009-10-30 Add-on of the Broadcast button in the result page of the query form, to make possible the sending of the results in VO applications through a running Samp hub (WebSampConnector-1.0).
2009-09-27 Improvement of the availability of the service when a storage element breaks down.
2009-09-01 Update of the SkyBoT GLU file to access the service through Aladin.
2009-07-03 Migrate Skybot version 1 towards version 2 in the Audela (v1.5.0 CVS) software.
2009-05-24 Implementation of VOTable v1.2, including the definition of the reference system of the coordinates provided by Skybot using the STC data model.
2009-02-01 Deployement of the new hardware infrastructure dedicated to the project, constaining 6+1 servers of computation, 2 servers for the service, and 2 storage elements to host the Skybot database.
2009-01-01 SkyBoT 2 RC1: test phase and development.
2008
2008-10-12 Addition of the comets in SkyBoT 2 - preliminary solution.
2008-09-01 First functional test of SkyBoT 2.
2008-06-07 Major update of SkyBoT 1 to migrate from the NuSoap library towards the native SOAP library of PHP 5.
2008-03-01 Migration of the IMCCE Internet server to a less efficient server (SPARC, Solaris 10) due to a hardware failure on the old server (SPARC, Solaris 10). The result of this migration is to lengthen the response time of SkyBoT's services and in particular no longer allows (or difficultly) to submit a request for a FOV > 2°.
2008-02-01 Addition of SkyBoT 1 service in Audela software.
2008-01-01 Continued development of SkyBoT 2.
2007
2007-07-01 Improvement of the administration of the database of SkyBoT 1.
2007-01-01 Startup of the design and the development of SkyBoT 2.
2006
2006-11-05 Modification of the structure of response of the SkyBoT web service. The skybot and skybotresolver methods return now a table of 3 elements (flag, ticket, result) instead of a unique character string.
2006-10-27
  • Correction of a minor bug on the identification of the bodies present in a field of view: a planetary system located exactly at the opposite of the requested field of view was recognized to belong to the field of view because of the properties of symmetry of the functions sine and cosine in the calculation of the tangential coordinates.
  • Correction of a typographical error on the name of the Saturn satellites Encelade and Japetus.
2006-09-21
  • Addition of a new format of output of SkyBoT. The argument -out=obs provides, in addition to the other results, the values of the phase angle and solar elongation of the targets. Other physical and dynamical parameters will be very soon added to this option.
  • Temporary modification of the UCD1+ "instr.fov" in its UCD1 equivalent "INST_DET_SIZE" to allow the program Aladin to correctly load the SkyBoT response. Indeed, Aladin uses key word "FOV" in his XML parser to designate a VOTable documents. Thus, the presence of this key word in a VOTable document causes a faulty operation in Aladin. This problem will be corrected in a forthcoming update of Aladin.
  • Modification of the VOTable document generated by SkyBoT to correct two errors in the XML structure of the document: insertion of element "COOSYS" in element "DEFINITIONS"; displacement of the elements "INFO" apart from element "RESOURCE".
2006-05-21 Addition of areocentric and areographic ephemeris computation to allow the use of SkyBoT for the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
2006-04-09 Update of the SkyBoT server to correct a defect of definition of the input parameters; modification of the structure of response.
2006-03-13 Correction of the bug occuring when the key word "now" is used to specify the date. The current date (in local time) is now correctly converted into UTC.
2006-01-23 Official startup of SkyBoT 1
2006-01-12 Addition of the module of numerical integration for the computation of the ephemeris of asteroids
2006-01-11 Registration of the SkyBoT service in AstroGrid Registry (AuthorityID: obspm.fr, Type: cea:CeaHttpApplicationType, ResourceKey: SkyBoT)
2006-01-09 Final version of the SkyBoT request forms
2005
2005-12-28 Addition of the character '|' as separator of field in the ASCII response of SkyBoT
2005-12-13 Implementation of planets and major natural satellites in the resolver of SkyBoT
2005-12-09 Implementation of SkyBoT Resolver into Aladin (v3.053)
2005-12-05 Addition of the module of computation of the topocentric coordinates (based on the IAU code of the observatories); Addition of the function of filtering of the data returned according to the error value of estimated position; Improvement of the Web services (regrouping of the 3 methods skybot, skybotResolver and skybotStatus within the same Web service)
2005-11-22 Suppression of the period 2010-2019 in the database. This part will be added later in the database.
2005-10-15 Implementation of SkyBoT into Audela software (v1.3)
2005-10-13 Startup of the weekly updates of the database
2005-10-04 Official presentation of SkyBoT to the conference ADASS XV, Oct 2, 2005, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
2005-08-19 Implementation of the module of transformation of the mean J2000 coordinates into astrometric J2000 coordinates for the ephemeris of the asteroids
2005-08-12 First update of the SkyBoT database
2005-07-12 SkyBoT 1 RC 1 : test phase (time span 1949-2019)
2005-03-17 Version of SkyBoT database limited to the year 2005 including 277091 asteroids
2005-03-01 First version of SkyBoT in Aladin (v3)
2005-02-19 Installation of the Web service (based on nuSOAP) and of the request form for the database of demonstration
2004
2004-12-01 First version of demonstration of the SkyBoT database, limited to 1 month (October 1991) for a few thousands of asteroids