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Thanks for the links! That's great!
I guess while we're sharing, here's something.
I found a nice little program a few months ago, http://www.slooh.com
It's basically an "observatory for rent", online. You can buy time cards, or you can just pay $49 for an entire year of using it.
They have locations in South America (Canary Islands, Chile), Europe (can't remember exactly), and soon one coming online in Australia.
Each location has an observatory with two scopes each. Each night, one scope is controlled with a pre set viewing schedule by the company astronomers, and one views whatever members have scheduled through the launch pad. It's actually pretty nice, i've been using it for about two months now and have loads of good quality pictures (which is nice if you don't have the budget for expensive equipment).
Best thing about it...i can view when it's daylight here in asia, and then view our own skies at night.
Hi folks,
Sky and Telescope just published a blog about a new tool on the Internet,
the Astroweather Panel (APanel). Some of you may be familiar with the Clear
Sky Clock (CSC) - a great tool predicting cloud cover, transparency and
seeing conditions. The problem is CSC only covers North America. Well,
APanel covers a lot more of the world, including Asia. This link provides
the APanel prediction for Chatan, Okinawa:
http://7timer.y234.cn/V3/product.php?language=en&product_id=1&country=JA&adm
=JA47&site=47
If that breaks you can use this link:
http://tinyurl.com/4bw3yz
This piece of HTML can be placed in a web page to insert the APanel for
Chatan with a "Legend" link back to the parent site:
<p align="center">
<img width="600" height="300"
src="http://7timer.y234.cn/V3/exe/apanel.php?country=JA&adm=JA47&site=47&en"
>
<br>
<b>
<a target="_blank"
href="http://7timer.y234.cn/V3/product.php?language=en&product_id=1&country=
JA&adm=JA47&site=47">
Legend</a></b></p>
Most likely these links will not work from a military network as APanel was
written and is hosted in China (a lot of Chinese Internet addresses are
blocked for security reasons) so try it from home.
I don't yet know how accurate APanel's predictions are - I just found out
about it. It does seem to be correct for today thus far.
Best regards,
Mike
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