Hiya
Well, if you mean you can't get piccies now, that's likely coz the
whole archive.stsci servers are down, for instance the GSC2.3 thing I
mentioned yesterday is down too at the moment.
They've had a notification up for a week or so that they were going to
shut down on 9th March 2007 their local time for electrical
maintenance upgrade work, so everything would be unplugged, or
something similar. ie, not normal maintenance, sounds more like power
work, unrelated to the computers.
If it's still down today I suppose it might well be down all weekend.
The Japanese have a DSS mirror, usno.nofs.navy.mil have an image
server, and I think eso might have one, not sure. You can use aladin,
at the cds strasbourg, which has its own archival images on its own
servers, but of course this doesn't help you integrate into Guide 8.
But as I say, the stsci archive sites are under maintenance and turned
off, so all you'll get is timeout messages or 404s or whatever from
your browser, as at the moment they don't exist, which is why the
error trap Bill built in won't be returning a message from the dss server.
I've just checked aladin, and that seems to not work either, unless
it's something at this end.
Cheers
John
--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "barringtonri" <pecorp@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Things have been smooth with my Guide 8 for a long time now, and
> tonight while trying to identify Sirius B from background clutter I
> found that I can no longer retreive DSS images from the web. I could
> understand a problem with Sirius, but it won't work for any location
> in the sky.
>
> I'm using about a 1° field. Under DSS/Real Sky Image the "show
> image" box is checked, the "show at" is set for 0 - 1, "downloads" is
> set for DSS1 and Normal. When I clikd on DSS from Internet, the
> hourglass icon comes on while the image is apparently downloading,
> and after a few seconds the star background blinks. I then click OK
> to get rid of the DSS/Real Sky Image box. And there's no image.
>
> Would someone please be so kind as to tell me what setting I've
> screwed up? I can find galaxy images that are already in place that
> will turn off and on with the DSS show image box setting and will go
> negative at the DSS box setting. I just can't seem to view new
> images.
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> Pete Peterson
>