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[ellarien]

No, there's really not much point in sitting here at stupid a.m. waiting for the poor neglected daemons of the old and mostly superseded data system to serve me up the data with which I am not really awake enough to deal at the moment. (You know the old saw about the problem with standards?)

Shiny new embargoed data is getting unveiled in a NASA press conference at 2.15pm EDT on Wednesday, which is not actually tomorrow any more except possibly in Hawaii. It would be nice to be somewhat awake to enjoy that.

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[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I was rather expecting that to be the end date of your embargo. I'll be sitting in a very cold church playing the oboe when the actual press conference takes place, but I'm sure the press releases will be available later.

An astronomy satellite with its own dedicated ground station is really quite impressive.

[ellarien]

Yes -- it's basically its own broadcast satellite. Quite a step up from the restricted bandwidth of SOHO and the compromises that imposed.

Check out http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/firstlight/ for my new desktop wallpaper, and more.

(I'm mostly involved in HMI, but a lot of the muffled squeeing from over here in the last week or two has been about AIA images, which are seriously pretty.)