Message from SKY-MAP creators
Ladies and Gentlemen,
When we just started SKY-MAP five years ago, we thought only about the fun it would create for our own kids and hoped to open a wide window to the Universe for them. During the first three weeks of January 2011, SKY-MAP received over 1.5 million visitors from 190 countries.
The constant increase in traffic has made our servers slow and unstable and our environment has become insufficient. With such servers, it is almost impossible to upgrade the system with the new sets of astronomical data and we don’t have enough power to process all the Internet requests.
We urgently need to replace our two 6-years old servers. According to our calculations, $14,000US would be sufficient for us to purchase two new dual 6-core CPU servers. This hardware would be able to serve you perfectly and would give us enough space and flexibility for at least the immediate future.
We are happy that SKY-MAP has become a popular resource that is used in schools and universities by students, teachers, amateur astronomers and professional scientists. We have collaborated with NASA, Harvard University, the European Space Agency, the Space Telescope Science Institute and many other organizations and we are proud of the level of recognition afforded to us by the scientific society and the general public.
Our popularity makes us optimistic; it shows that, despite the many different problems on the Earth, people are still interested in gazing up at the sky. We think that SKY-MAP is unique, not only because of its educational power, but also because it joins people together.
For several years, without seeking profit or glory, we (Konstantin Lysenko and Sergei Goshko) have carried out all the development, design, testing, data processing, software maintenance, and many other tasks, aiming to make SKY-MAP more professional, interesting, useful, and attractive. And we promise that we will continue with our efforts because we believe that this mission has a positive influence on us, our children, and many other people.
However, we do have problems. The expenses related to SKY-MAP are quite significant and noticeable for our families.
We need your support in order for SKY-MAP (WIKISKY) to remain stable, fast, and advertisement-free.
We need your support to continue and intensify the development, enriching SKY-MAP with new data and functions.
This is a cool site.
Keep up the good work.
Sir/mam i am fine,how are you i would like to become a space scientist what can i do for this and could you please help me to become a scientist please please ………….
Great job guys!!!!! Great site!!! Having a blast finding new things, some are not Catalogued yet!
por favor, me pueden decir que es olo que se encu8entra en las coordenadas
06 39 17 -13 45 32
gracias
My prefered website, great job, thanks a lot!
hola
a raíz de una noticia de que tres naves llegarán a nuestro planeta, he venido recorriendo sky.map, y me encuentro con las siguientes curiosidades, que espero me sepan ayudar a descifrar:
00 11 44 -35 40 04
04 18 05 -30 15 35
08 48 39 -89 38 07
21 07 04 -73 48 14
10 08 07 +23 41 47
en todo el tiempo que llevo recorriendo sky.map., he logrado recolectar mas de 200 sitios de estos, que si a ustedes les interesa les puede facilitar
atentamente
gonzalo desde ecuador
Considering your visitors data exhibited at the bottom of this page, 743 all time simultaneous visitors on 3/7/2011, I question the wisdom of spending $14K to upgrade your servers. Is it possible to show a map like the one for cpu usage on pcs? How many simultaneous visitors will the new servers support? Just curious.
Those numbers are blog visitors only, that is less than 1 percent of total sky map visitors. Our servers handle up to 25000 requests per minute. About 5-10% of those requests require expensive in terms of CPU cycles real-time image projection generation. At rush hours CPU graph is solid at 100% on all servers. New servers will handle up to 100K requests per minute plus additional space will allow us to add more data and services.
O que é isso 03 32 15 -58 54 29 ?
What this is ? http://server4.sky-map.org/snapshot?ra=8.488020586740836&de=11.029865080431403&zoom=11&show_grid=1&show_constellation_lines=1&show_constellation_boundaries=1&show_const_names=0&show_galaxies=1&show_box=1&box_ra=8.443055&box_de=11.6669445&box_width=50&box_height=50&img_source=DSS2
http://server5.sky-map.org/snapshot?ra=3.6457217468066894&de=-59.60191325227647&zoom=10&show_grid=1&show_constellation_lines=1&show_constellation_boundaries=1&show_const_names=0&show_galaxies=1&show_box=1&box_ra=3.5375&box_de=-58.908054&box_width=50&box_height=50&img_source=DSS2
era isso que eu vi nas coordenadas acima 03 32 15 -58 54 29, tem que ir abrindo a tela para o lado ou para baixo
necesto saber cuales son las cordenadas para poder ver la nave mandemenlas al correo luisfergo098@hotmail.com
Alot coorditats what i find on the sky, so, becouse this, i created a facebook page, for ths. Almost 100 picture was uploaded to the albul, name sky-map.org, and every picture name is that coordinate, when you can find, what you can see in the picture.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-are-not-alone/119205118167975
Like it, and try figurite out, what is on the pictures. Send in comment that coordinate, what you find, or upload that picture, what you take, and give the coordinate for the name of that picture. This universe is huge, so i need all of you. Lets make some big group with thousend picture and coordinate, and lets prove it for the people, We are not ALONE.
I need the sky-map.org creators team, to be my administrator partner on this facebook page. Can you be to my partner?
its absolutelly spaceship.
19 02 32.08,+24 56 59
Hello enybody khows what is these??
19 25 12 -89 46 03
16 19 35 -88 43 10
02 26 39 -89 43 13
Somebody anser me plz…
Considering the *hours* of enjoyment & enrichment this site has given me, it seems only fair to give a little in return. I saw last week that the average movie ticket price is now $7.89 …the minimum donation here is five bucks, and you can stay as long as you want… I’d call that a bargain!
Porfavor chequen esto, dentro la constelación acuario 22 35 54.69, -04,25,18.2 parece ser un planetoide naranja se asemeja mucho al famoso planeta X o hercóbulus… tambien y cerca en las coordenadas 22 37 38.06, -04 31 26.0 se puede apreciar un objeto alargado en forma extraña, otras rarezas 12 52 00.00, -03 00,20.3 una especie de rombos unido por un vértice y una línea naranja muy cerca y esto último no se si es el reflejo de algo sobre la lente o que es 13 19 45.04, -09 29 42
perchè non riesco a connettermi al server , ho messo diverse coordinate ma non si connette . qualcuno può aiutarmi , grazie
Es el reflejo del espejo de refracción del telescopio esp. hubble o de una celda solar.
se acerca un asteroide es muí grande lla se partió en dos muí pronto se partirá en paticulas asta de 100 metros de repente se desintegra la nasa lo sabe ase años pero no se preocupen por que en esta esfera se encuentran con cuerpo ficico los dioses y ellos son los que desbian los asteroides
This site is so cool – it should be linked off Google as ‘Google Space’.
hello health is not the truth if it is a craft that I found seemed to me that matches the other three they found that target the land, the coordinates are 16 17 47 -22 37 06 these are greetings
Muy buena pagina, adelante, muy buena información, e imagens congratulations
It is a good time I spend in this site. It is wonderful work, forward
Hey guys!!! I find this… what is this???
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.308519402526426.80177.100001051075210&type=1&l=caef1fd808
and this: 14h50m26.00s, -06°58′38.2″ ???
15h32m56.78s, -08°57′05.8″ parece un cigarro , alguien puede decirme que son estas cosas que aparecen en todas partes… seran particulas de polvo que se adhieren al espejo del telescopio??? pero porque hay en dos diferentes colores? rojos y azulinos??? saludos…
por favor digamen donde se ponen las coordenadas
la mejor imagen de todas esta en 21 13 26-12 17 48 lo llamo el circulo de los hermanos
he visto algo, tan vez no sea nada,08 50 36-89 38 07
es una pagina de nucho interes y aprendisaje para todos y espero lo aprovechen
Hello, I have seen that this request for donations is open for over a year and still have not gathered enough to buy these new servers that you need. Have you not thinking in post this message in sites like Reddit and similar?. So perhaps you could bring to get donations faster, like a man named Omari, who requested help to get US$ 2000 to fix the fence that surrounds an orphanage in Kenya (more precisely of the Faraja in Ngong) and keep children safe. But in less than 24 hours Reddit met donations totaling US$ 65,000 for the orphanage (see http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/meet-omari-reddit-raised-50k-for-him-and-his-orphanage-in-under-14-hours/68090 for more details).