Gaia DR2 postponed

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Gaia DR2 postponed

Post #1by selden » 10.02.2017, 17:18

The second Gaia Data Release has been postponed until April, 2018. :(

See https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/news_20170203
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Post #2by john71 » 11.02.2017, 09:39

Look at the bright side of it. The Celestia Developement Team now will have the time to enable Celestia 2.0 to handle the one billion star data...

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By the way, Gaia Sky feels like a very bad (not user friendly) version of Celestia..:)

https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky/

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Competition, competition...:)

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Wait a minute: if Gaia Sky is open source...can it help to develop Celestia 2.0?


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