Get in the queue! – Scaling Galaxy Zoo
Did anyone notice that ‘My Galaxies’ got a little out of date earlier this week? If you did then you might like to hear a blow-by-blow technical explanation over here.
Cheers
Arfon
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Galaxy Zoo Supernovae from a technical standpoint
I’ve just finished writing up some of the more technical details associated with our recent supernova hunt. If you’re interested in how it all worked behind the scenes then head over here…
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Supernova Zoo updates
I’ve just added in the latest batch of images taken by the Palomar Transient Factory last night. The PTF surveys large areas the sky every night looking for new supernovae. The images from these observations are then run through an automated pipeline which flags potential new candidates which we show to you.
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Merge complete!
We’ve had a busy afternoon here at the Zoo working hard to merge the Galaxy Zoo and Galaxy Zoo forum user accounts. I’m pleased to say that the process is now complete!
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Forums merge part deux
You may have noticed that the forums are again in maintenance mode and new registrations are disabled on the Zoo at the moment. That’s because we’re currently churning away in the background merging the accounts from both databases. For more information have a read of our earlier post We should have some [...]
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If at first you don’t succeed…
So it’s been a busy 24 hours at Galaxy Zoo. As we outlined in the earlier posts were working hard on unifying the Galaxy Zoo and Galaxy Zoo forum accounts. During the merge we had to disable the forums and new registrations on the Zoo so that we could be sure of exactly [...]
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Things are moving slooowly
So the long promised forums/Zoo accounts merge is underway but unfortunately things are moving a little slower than we’d like. The good new is we’re making good progress, the bad news is the forums won’t be back up until tomorrow now – sorry!
More news in the morning…
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Changes are coming…
Today is a big day for those of us who work behind the scenes at Galaxy Zoo. More news later but for now the forums are in maintenance mode and new registrations are disabled on the Zoo until this evening. More news later…
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Arfon -
I have a confession…
What was the final Zoonometer™ count? You can find out here…
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The millionth click
It’s been a great day – we sailed past our target of 1 million clicks in 100 hours late this Saturday morning. The site became a little sluggish as the couter got closer and closer to the 1 million mark, probably because everyone was hitting the refresh button (I know I was!).
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