Starship Asterisk*

APOD's main site at NASA's GSFC will go off the air if the US Government cannot get past the present budget impasse and shuts down over the next few days. APOD itself, however, will continue through its numerous mirror sites. New APODs will still be produced -- one every day as usual. This thread is an informational thread that will give details as to how this will happen. Please only post to this thread if you are involved in producing APOD, producing any of its mirror sites, moderating the Asterisk, or have a really good idea that we appear to be missing. A list of mirror sites is given here: http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/li ... _apod.html .

Thanks for bearing with us. New information will be posted here as it becomes known. We apologize for the inconvenience.

- RJN

APOD Mirror Sites

English language
Italy (in English from Observatorio Astronomico di Brera): http://www.brera.mi.astro.it/apod/, maintained by Chiara Giorgieri
Japan (in Japanese and English): http://home.u05.itscom.net/apodjpn/apodj/apodj0.htm, maintained by Aiichirou Niwa
Russia (in English from Moscow University): http://www.sai.msu.su/apod/ maintained by Oleg Bartunov
Taiwan (in English): http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/m ... /apod.html maintained by Han-Tzong Su
United Kingdom (University College London): http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/astropix.html, maintained by Ian Howarth

Translated
Algeria (in Arabic from the Sirius Astronomy Association): http://www.apodar.com/, maintained by Abdrahman Zoghbi
Austria (in German): http://www.starobserver.org/, maintained by Eugen Reichl & Maria Pflug-Hofmayr
Brazil (in Portugeuse): http://www.apod.astronomos.com.br/apod.php, maintained by Marcelo Domingues
China (in Chinese from Beijing Planetarium): http://www.bjp.org.cn/apod/today.htm, maintained by Guo Xia
Czech Republic (in Czech): http://www.astro.cz/apod/, maintained by Josef Chlachula
France (in French from Ciel des Hommes): http://www.cidehom.com/apod.php, maintained by Laurent Laveder
Iran (in Persian): http://www.iranapod.com, maintained by Kambiz Khaleghi
Israel (in Hebrew, translated by R. Mada): http://www.astronomia2009.org.il/info/apod/apod.htm, maintained by Yair Grinberg
Japan (in Japanese and English): http://home.u05.itscom.net/apodjpn/apodj/apodj0.htm, maintained by Aiichirou Niwa
Netherlands (in Dutch): http://www.apod.nl/, maintained by Rolf A. Jansen
Poland (translated to Polish within a few days by the Polish Astronomical Society): http://byk.oa.uj.edu.pl/apodmain/apod/astropix.html maintained by Tomasz Kundera
Romania (in Romanian): http://apod.binet.ro/ maintained by Christian Graure
Russia (in Russian from Astronet.ru): http://www.astronet.ru/db/apod.html maintained by Oleg Bartunov
Spain (in Catalan): http://www.apod.cat/ maintained by Xavier Berenguer
Spain (in Spanish): http://observatorio.info maintained by Alex Dantart (AstroRed)
Taiwan (in Chinese): http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/m ... /apod.html,
and (in English): http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/m ... /apod.html maintained by Han-Tzong Su
Turkey (in Turkish): http://www.bulutsu.org, maintained by Murat Tuncay
United States (Spanish translation): http://fadd.corank.com/, maintained by Rogelio Andreo