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by mdione
Sat Jan 14, 2023 5:25 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: New APOD RSS Feed Required
Replies: 17
Views: 65563

Re: New APOD RSS Feed Required

More info here viewtopic.php?t=42849
by mdione
Sat Jan 14, 2023 5:25 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: New APOD RSS Feed Required
Replies: 17
Views: 65563

Re: New APOD RSS Feed Required

Hi people. a week ago I contacted the editors about this, they sent me here: I'm no RSS expert (although I once wrote my own client), but I think for ages the RSS feed was kinda broken: * The first entry always points to https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html , even when a dated page (ap{YY}{MM}{D...
by mdione
Wed Jan 04, 2023 10:11 pm
Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
Topic: RSS feed is kinda broken
Replies: 3
Views: 10002

Re: RSS feed is kinda broken

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html is always the current apod. Yes, I don't deny it is useful, what I'm saying is that it shouldn't be in the RSS feed, specially since it doesn't have a declared date. The RSS feed instead should include the date based URL for the first entry, since that URL i...
by mdione
Wed Jan 04, 2023 8:53 am
Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
Topic: RSS feed is kinda broken
Replies: 3
Views: 10002

RSS feed is kinda broken

I'm no RSS expert (although I once wrote my own client), but I think for ages the RSS feed was kinda broken: The first entry always points to https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html, even when a dated page (ap{YY}{MM}{DD}.html) exists, which means the entry changes every day, and (some?) RSS client...
by mdione
Wed Mar 31, 2021 8:43 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Red Sprite Lightning over the Andes (2021 Mar 30)
Replies: 16
Views: 8195

Re: APOD: Red Sprite Lightning over the Andes (2021 Mar 30)

Just a geographic/redaction nitpick: The featured image was taken earlier this year from Las Campanas observatory in Chile over the Andes Mountains in Argentina I would remove the 'in Argentina' thing since it's confusing: The Andes are the boundary between Chile and Argentina, and if the obs is in ...
by mdione
Sun May 24, 2020 10:16 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2020 May
Replies: 153
Views: 218208

Re: Submissions: 2020 May

http://dionecanali.hd.free.fr/~mdione/Pictures/gallery/themes/Astro/2020-05-24T21.59.17_01.jpg Moon, Mercury and Venus on May 24th, 22h, North of Antibes. We see the last lights of Antibes in the foreground, Grasse at the feet of the mountains, and the pointy top of Le Doublier as the last silhouett...