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by **Rauf** » Sun Jul 09, 2023 9:19 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 11:12 am apod.it is no longer managed. Is there another source of this view?

I don't think so..

by **Guest** » Sun Sep 13, 2020 11:12 am

apod.it is no longer managed. Is there another source of this view?

by **DavidLeodis** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:36 pm

Having viewed this APOD several times over the last few days I've just realised that what I assume are the Sun (yellow spot currently to the right) and the Moon (grey spot currently far left) by the red line (ecliptic?) in the version brought up through the "above heatmap" link both move a little to the left over time, with the Moon's movement being the most obvious. I'm not computer literate but I assume therefore that the JavaScript is keeping information up to date. Interesting.

by **geckzilla** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 4:28 am

I don't get any results when I go to that coordinate, either. When I click the bright red spot in sag I get this: http://www.apod.it/?RA=271.5&DEC=-22.875&SR=3

by **Guest** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 3:23 am

Chris Peterson wrote:
geckzilla wrote:All of the latest updates in WinXP and on IE8 is still five years out of date. The javascript probably wasn't written to compensate for IE8's shortcomings.
Yeah, I stopped testing my websites against IE8 a while back. There's no reason anybody should be using that browser. Even if you're still using XP, there are Chrome and Firefox, which are largely standards compliant and can be kept current even under the old OS.

That's the most stable anything MS has ever released! I built an XP system in 2003 and just quit using it this year!

Anyhow, update: It doesn't work in Win8/IE11, either. Clicking on the brightest red spot in Sag, I get, "Sorry. We didn't find any APODs matching RA=327, DEC=21.780000686645508 (radius 3°)"

by **C0ppert0p** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 3:56 am

Wow, 19 years old!!
And I havent missed a single day either.
Congratulation and here's hoping for another 19 years, as full of astounding images, as the last 19 were!

by **maicokid** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:43 am

Great idea and a lot of work. You are to be commended considering the work that went into this project. I to go here everyday. It's a great getaway place. Again Thanks for the great effort.

by **rtorlas@gmail.com** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:29 pm

Happy Birthday! I thought for sure that Orion would have the most, but Andromeda has more. There could be others; I just clicked on what appeared the brightest.

by **Cousin Ricky** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:13 pm

Indigo_Sunrise wrote:What does the red wavy line signify? And the yellow half-circle at the 'crest' of the wave? Are the thin light blue lines depicting the Milky Way?

I'm sure the wavy red line is the ecliptic. I don't see any yellow half circle or thin blue lines. The Milky Way can be discerned as a sort of wide, rounded V-shape of a higher density of stars. Squinting helps.

by **Cousin Ricky** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:58 pm

Guest wrote:I'm using Internet Explorer 8, all the latest updates, in WinXP.

Then you're a sitting duck for any new security holes that open up (and they will). Microsoft has stopped issuing security updates for WinXP, which was the already the least secure operating system to begin with.

Internet Explorer is up to version 11, last I checked, which was a while ago.

by **Guest** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:47 pm

start filling in those blank spots!

by **RiverCity7** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:55 pm

Happy Birthday and thanks to everyone working to provide excellent science to the world daily! I appreciate also the personal response I got from a professor when I wrote him. APOD is my home page; if I miss a day, you provide the Archive. I didn't know about this forum and am very glad to have found it. Thank you for that, too.

by **Boomer12k** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:22 pm

Congratulations APOD!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!

This is an interesting way to get around the sky.

Thanks.

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by **jmo** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 5:52 pm

You should do a heatmap of where APoD is accessed globally

by **bub4280** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 5:30 pm

Thank you.

by **slidewaysracing** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 5:01 pm

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
THANK YOU for the wonderful pix!!

by **Chris Peterson** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 4:48 pm

geckzilla wrote:All of the latest updates in WinXP and on IE8 is still five years out of date. The javascript probably wasn't written to compensate for IE8's shortcomings.

Yeah, I stopped testing my websites against IE8 a while back. There's no reason anybody should be using that browser. Even if you're still using XP, there are Chrome and Firefox, which are largely standards compliant and can be kept current even under the old OS.

by **geckzilla** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 4:26 pm

Guest wrote:Happy Birthday, APOD and many thinks to all. I check it out every day.

Unfortunately, when I click on a spot that is bright red, such as the area I presume to be Sagitarius just to the left of center on the "wavy line," all I get is:

Sorry. We didn't find any APODs matching RA=NaN, DEC=NaN (radius 3°)

I'm using Internet Explorer 8, all the latest updates, in WinXP.

All of the latest updates in WinXP and on IE8 is still five years out of date. The javascript probably wasn't written to compensate for IE8's shortcomings.

by **Guest** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 4:21 pm

Happy Birthday, APOD and many thinks to all. I check it out every day.

Unfortunately, when I click on a spot that is bright red, such as the area I presume to be Sagitarius just to the left of center on the "wavy line," all I get is:

Sorry. We didn't find any APODs matching RA=NaN, DEC=NaN (radius 3°)

I'm using Internet Explorer 8, all the latest updates, in WinXP.

by **Indigo_Sunrise** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:25 pm

Chris Peterson wrote:I'll take people's word for it that this is an interesting APOD. I can't really get to it. Bits and pieces from time to time, but mostly just server timeouts from the Italian source site.

How about following the usual APOD approach of the main page image being a static image hosted here, and the click through linking to the source? Seems like people simply loading the APOD home page is badly overloading the source server, which is apparently generating the image from code, not supplying a cached image.

geckzilla wrote:Well, it was working pretty good last night before it started getting overloaded today. It is a partially vector image is generated using javascript, CSS, and HTML and the image itself is dynamic and changes not only when new APODs are but also the sky itself is changing like a little planetarium simulation. This is cool but yeah, for high stress situations a static version would be nice. It's also entirely possible that the cone search itself is what is overloading the server rather than the image generation. Seems unlikely but I guess nearly any code has room for improvement.

FWIW, I finally used Chrome to be able to view it, and even then it was slow.
Now, I've just been getting the 'timed out' notification.

by **Henchman172** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:23 pm

All I can say is you APOD guys ROCK.
Seriously.

by **geckzilla** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:00 pm

Chris Peterson wrote:I'll take people's word for it that this is an interesting APOD. I can't really get to it. Bits and pieces from time to time, but mostly just server timeouts from the Italian source site.

How about following the usual APOD approach of the main page image being a static image hosted here, and the click through linking to the source? Seems like people simply loading the APOD home page is badly overloading the source server, which is apparently generating the image from code, not supplying a cached image.

Well, it was working pretty good last night before it started getting overloaded today. It is a partially vector image is generated using javascript, CSS, and HTML and the image itself is dynamic and changes not only when new APODs are but also the sky itself is changing like a little planetarium simulation. This is cool but yeah, for high stress situations a static version would be nice. It's also entirely possible that the cone search itself is what is overloading the server rather than the image generation. Seems unlikely but I guess nearly any code has room for improvement.

by **Chris Peterson** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:14 pm

I'll take people's word for it that this is an interesting APOD. I can't really get to it. Bits and pieces from time to time, but mostly just server timeouts from the Italian source site.

How about following the usual APOD approach of the main page image being a static image hosted here, and the click through linking to the source? Seems like people simply loading the APOD home page is badly overloading the source server, which is apparently generating the image from code, not supplying a cached image.

by **pgoutdoors** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:12 pm

Today's heat map doesn't work.

by **FloridaMike** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 1:31 pm

Happy Birthday APOD and thank you to all who make it happen.

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