WikiSky – web site of the week on Voice of America

Posted by admin on May 3, 2010

WikiSky was chosen as web site of the week by Voice of America. Here’s the link on article and audio podcast: http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/science-technology/website-of-the-week/Website-of-the-Week—Wikisky-91916494.html ____________

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Sky-Map.org (WikiSky) on BBC

Posted by admin on November 24, 2009

Sky-Map.org (WikiSky) was featured on BBC’s Webscape TV programme over last weekends. Thousands of new visitors, mostly from England, put quite a load on our servers. ____________

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Sloan Digitial Sky Survey updated

Posted by WikiSky on November 25, 2008

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 [...]

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Servers upgrade complete

Posted by WikiSky on October 22, 2008

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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New SkyBrowser

Posted by WikiSky on September 27, 2008

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 [...]

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Moving

Posted by WikiSky on September 25, 2008

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!

Posted by admin on September 24, 2008

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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