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by Joan Girones
Fri Dec 31, 2010 5:58 am
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: For Mirror Site Operators
Replies: 21
Views: 11786

Re: Wrong link on APOD Dec 31 – “Analemma 2010”

bystander wrote: http://www.twanight.org/ladanyi works just fine (remove http//).

Also that's right.

Thanks!
by Joan Girones
Fri Dec 31, 2010 2:25 am
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: For Mirror Site Operators
Replies: 21
Views: 11786

Wrong link on APOD Dec 31 – “Analemma 2010”

There is a mistype on the link of Credit "Tamas Ladanyi":

The wrong target is: http://http//www.twanight.org/ladanyi

The right one is: http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/photogr ... %20Ladanyi
by Joan Girones
Wed Dec 29, 2010 12:58 am
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: For Mirror Site Operators
Replies: 21
Views: 11786

Wrong link on APOD Dec 29 – “Eclipse at Moonset”

Just I case, despite APOD editors had been warned, take care about the link on geocentric.

There is a mistype: the wrong target is “ap0904171.html” and the right one is “ap090417.html”.
by Joan Girones
Sun Dec 26, 2010 11:11 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Tycho Brahe, murdering, and go to toilet
Replies: 1
Views: 505

Tycho Brahe, murdering, and go to toilet

Was Tycho Brahe murdered? http://www.aolnews.com/2010/11/15/scientists-exhume-remains-to-learn-if-astronomer-was-murdered/ Brahe's death has long been attributed to a bladder infection contracted after his bladder ruptured during a royal banquet where politeness and convention kept him from leaving...
by Joan Girones
Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:33 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: APOD web site statistics
Replies: 5
Views: 1816

Just a curiosity: some data about APOD editors linking habit

Internal links The APOD web site internal title more linked ( 178 times ) is “Fractal Interstellar Dust Up-Close” , available on: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030706.html http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990509.html http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980104.html http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/...
by Joan Girones
Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:24 am
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: For Mirror Site Operators
Replies: 21
Views: 11786

APOD Nov 19 - Nebulae in the Northern Cross

The link of “Northern Coal Sack” doesn’t have any target:

<a href="">Northern Coal Sack</a>

Possibly the right one might be APOD October 23, 2003, “Cygnus Nebulosities”.
by Joan Girones
Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:58 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: APOD web site statistics
Replies: 5
Views: 1816

Re: Links to “abstracts”

Statistics can't tell you the whole story and may in fact be misleading. I’m absolutely agreed with the first part of your statement. Furthermore: statistics never tells the whole story. Buy they only may be misleading if are taken as more than a trend; just a clue to begin understanding a phenomen...
by Joan Girones
Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:10 am
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: APOD web site statistics
Replies: 5
Views: 1816

Links to “abstracts”

Within the global trend in which the users don’t click the links, there is a special kind. I name it “abstracts”, despite these links are not abstracts in every instance. Some examples are: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1972ApJ...178..623T http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1998...
by Joan Girones
Sun Oct 24, 2010 9:59 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: Official Facebook Group?
Replies: 40
Views: 5979

Re: Official Facebook Group?

With some minor trouble and the valuable help from bystander, it’s running the Facebook page from Catalan APOD mirror.

Because it still doesn’t have URL, you can found it on Facebook searching “Imatge Astronòmica del Dia (APOD)”
by Joan Girones
Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:56 am
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: APOD web site statistics
Replies: 5
Views: 1816

APOD web site statistics

Statistics about - APOD reader’s behavior - analysis systems (Google Analytics, Alexa, server tracking…) - curiosities And any topic related with APOD statistics. If you are an APOD mirror site operator and you want to share your data, that’s the place. (Some data are only based on Catalan APOD mirr...
by Joan Girones
Sun Oct 17, 2010 12:29 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: For Mirror Site Operators
Replies: 21
Views: 11786

Oct 18 - It Came from the Sun

The title reminds a classic sci-fi movie: "It Came from Outer Space" (1953).

If do you like it, could be funny to include a link on the explanation like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErFsW4-FDWw

Joan
by Joan Girones
Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:36 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: For Mirror Site Operators
Replies: 21
Views: 11786

More about meta tags

Hello,


There you are another opinion about this topic.

http://www.highrankings.com/no-metas-286

Bye,
by Joan Girones
Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:01 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: For Mirror Site Operators
Replies: 21
Views: 11786

APOD Oct 1 - Zarmina's World

There is an interesting video about Gliese 581g, released from NASA-TV, which you can link from explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqhkfIrJ_Ic .
by Joan Girones
Thu Sep 30, 2010 5:38 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: For Mirror Site Operators
Replies: 21
Views: 11786

APOD Sep 30 - Coreshine from a Dark Cloud

Right now the new Spitzer Space Telescope web site- http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/ is running again.
by Joan Girones
Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:46 am
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: For Mirror Site Operators
Replies: 21
Views: 11786

APOD Sep 30 - Coreshine from a Dark Cloud

Hello, There is still a problem with the new, and still beta, Spitzer Space Telescope web site (http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/). As a suggestion, you can use the following alternate links’ target: “Spitzer Space Telescope” - http://legacy.spitzer.caltech.edu/index.shtml “known as coreshine” - http:...
by Joan Girones
Wed Sep 29, 2010 9:57 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: Official Facebook Group?
Replies: 40
Views: 5979

Re: Official Facebook Group?

Hi,

From a year ago I have in mind a Facebook group of APOD Catalan mirror, but I have a couple of doubts/questions:

Is there any copyright problem, especially on non English APOD mirrors?

Is the word “official” suitable to an APOD mirror?

Thanks.
by Joan Girones
Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:51 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: For Mirror Site Operators
Replies: 21
Views: 11786

Re: For Mirror Site Operators

Fine.
Thanks!
by Joan Girones
Tue Sep 28, 2010 11:32 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: For Mirror Site Operators
Replies: 21
Views: 11786

APOD Sep 29 - An Airplane in Front of the Moon

Hello, On from http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/fap/ap100929.html, the link from "nerve of steel" returns the message “Image has expired, sorry. Please visit pixdaus.com and get new link” - http://pixdaus.com/pixdaus.png. From my Catalan version draw still shows the right image: http://pix...
by Joan Girones
Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:10 am
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: For Mirror Site Operators
Replies: 21
Views: 11786

About meta-tag "keywords"

APOD uses the meta-tag “keywords”, as well some mirror sites, mainly those in English. Google itself claims that its searcher practically ignores the meta "keywords". Please, take a look to these videos from “Google Webmaster Help”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK7IPbnmvVU http://www.you...
by Joan Girones
Wed Sep 01, 2010 1:13 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: For Mirror Site Operators
Replies: 21
Views: 11786

For Mirror Site Operators

Mirror site operators – in English or translated – should register on Starship Asterisk and sign up for this discuss to receive email notifications about - fixes needs to be made for a concrete APOD - how to edit daily APOD to better positioning on searchers - any topic about APOD edition and publis...
by Joan Girones
Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:36 pm
Forum: The Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources
Topic: Solved: What is it? Space mystery object
Replies: 457
Views: 39884

Re: What is it? Space mystery object #39.

I deleted my post because I realized that its content was copyrighted and, as bystander said, the image must be from APOD.

May bad.