Changelog

Changes to the website, the API and the served data. Data changes always come with a new serve_id.

API 3.1 · stars release 55c97bc0c218a6c5 · SS release ef7caf53a399bc1f

November 2026: private beta#

The first version of Sky Patrol V3, API version 3.1.

Data#

• Stars: release skypatrolV3_packed_20261029 (55c97bc0c218a6c52fa9345281389dd39a8c4bd139d55c14ca87bd209a760d09), 164,180,266 stars and 15,164,380 images, with Q5 quality flags.
• Solar system: release skypatrolSS_ss1_20261110 (ef7caf53a399bc1f041b92883a3793bcf362f12899312c429f0c3c70e7ac6053), 196,860 asteroids and comets, decoded with the SS-D1 rules.

Website#

• One search box for star names, coordinates, Sky Patrol ids, Gaia DR3 and DR2 ids and solar-system names.
• Star pages with time, phase and periodogram views, flag presets, aperture choice and downloads.
• Solar-system pages with phase curves, an orbit view, observing geometry and object notes.
• A sky panel with Aladin Lite, light and dark themes, and every view kept in the URL.

API#

• GET endpoints for release information, resolution, cone searches, star and solar-system light curves.
• Formats: SP3C, JSON, CSV, ECSV, Arrow and Parquet.
• Versioned URLs under /v3/r/{serve_id}/ that can be cached forever.
• rc1-compatible /v3/health, /v3/release and /v3/status.
• Gaia DR3 and DR2 ids: in every star record, GET /v3/stars/gaia/{release}/{source_id}, POST /v3/stars/gaia/{release} for up to 10,000 ids, Gaia ids as star references and in /v3/resolve.

Coming soon#

• Batch light-curve streams (POST /v3/stars/lc, POST /v3/ss/lc) and the SP3F format.
• Bulk jobs (/v3/jobs) and access tokens.
• The rc1 endpoints POST /v3/cone and POST /v3/query.