We have been experiencing some rather annoying network troubles over the past couple of months that were causing the PROMPT telescopes to lose their connection to Skynet. While this was due in part to network issues between here and Chile, it was also due in large part to some less than optimal behavior in the underlying code. Kevin has recently tracked this down, so we should now have a much more stable connection to the telescopes. This means that more jobs should get done in a timely fashion and some parts of the Skynet website may be a bit snappier.
February 23, 2007
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Thanks for the update. Much appreciated. Any guesses as to when the cameras now inoperative will be back from Apogee?
Comment by horbrastar — February 25, 2007 @ 1:37 am
We don’t know yet, but we hope soon. I will make a post when we have a better idea of when we might get some of the other scopes back up.
Please bear in mind that the two cameras we have functioning now will also need to go to Apogee to fix the seal on the optical chamber, so there will be some ups and downs over the coming weeks. We will try and keep everyone in the loop as much as we can.
Comment by mrbook2 — February 25, 2007 @ 4:17 am