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Sloan Digitial Sky Survey updated

WikiSky — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:24:09 +0000

We published new data release of SDSS sky survey (SDSS DR7). We also opened access to previous sky surveys since DR3 and added ability to show SDSS survey in wide angle. Before there was limitation to show survey in zoom level 6 and deeper due to angle restriction on remote server that hosts the survey’s images (SkyServer). After recent upgrade (thanks to everyone who supporting us) we’ve been able to upload wide angle images on our servers and fill the gap in survey rendering.

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Servers upgrade complete

WikiSky — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:46:03 +0000

We finally put last server into production loop today, completeing upgrade cycle started three weeks back. The SKY-MAP service works at full speed now. Thank you for your patience.

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Lunar Pages hosting

WikiSky — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:02:12 +0000

Our new provider Lunar Pages that we moved our front end pages to just 2 weeks ago cased us first headache – 1.5 hours downtime caused by one of their junior system administrator, who suddenly decided that our web site put in danger their server and without any prior notification recklessly suspended front page access that load-balances our dedicated servers. We decided to move to Lunar Pages based on many positive review of their high up-time and friendly technical support. Well, that action didn’t look “friendly” at all, making me believe to one or two complains that Lunar Pages falsified ratings by fabricating positive reviews. For now we will keep two front-end copies on different providers, but in future we’d like to move this last part of SKY-MAP system on dedicated server as well.

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Servers upgrade

WikiSky — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:28:43 +0000

We’re performing servers upgrade during this week. Though SKY-MAP service will not be interrupted it might perform slower than usual. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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New SkyBrowser

WikiSky — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:13:13 +0000

I just put new build on all servers.

The major addition is new SkyBrowser interface (still in beta). For now it is available as alternative view accessible from buttons row (see first button with white rectangle on it). But eventually it will replace front page’s sky browser.

Example of SkyWindow Ver.2 URL here

New sky browser also available as embedded window API, i.e.:
Select position: here
or in-page sky window: here

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Moving

WikiSky — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:12:10 +0000

We are currently moving front-end part of our sky map system to the new web hosting provider. Most stuff has been transferred already. We still working on issues with some thumbnail astrophoto images

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Hello world!

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:06:05 +0000

Hello World!

There two words often are the first words a newborn computer program speaks in hands of a newborn computer programmer. I still remember time when my “Hello World” program looked something like:

 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
 20 END

Well, here I am again. Now in role of newbie blogger

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