Re: ASAS-3 variable star catalog

[Fraser Farrell <fraser@trilobytes.com.au>]

Stupendous Man wrote:
>   I recently realized that the All-Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) project
> has released a major catalog of variable stars.  If you go to the
> ASAS WWW page:
>
>      http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~gp/asas/asas.html
>
> and select the ASAS-3 catalog item, you'll be given a choice of
> several views of the catalog information.  Perhaps TASS members who
> are thinking about databases and how to present information might
> check it out...


First thought that comes to mind is this: If you're making a website that 
builds its pages on demand (from a database?), then test it thoroughly to 
ensure that its pages/frames will actually display to a visitor.

Whenever I follow links from the ASAS homepage to burrow into the actual data 
I got lots of 404 (page not found) and 500 (internal server error) notices. 
With Mozilla, Opera, two different versions of Netscape, and three different 
versions of Internet Explorer.

Makes it a tad difficult to evaluate their work....


cheers,

-- 

Fraser Farrell

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