Apod

[please]

The image in this post changes every day:

Links removed, they were to a website which daily copies the APOD in direct violation of the terms of use, which is something which shouldn't be promoted here.


So, if someone ever thought about putting APOD on his/her site, but had no idea how to do that, see above.
Putting the APOD on a website is in violation of the copyrights on the pictures, it's not something to do.


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[Kullat Nunu]

Yeah, APOD often features copyrighted non-NASA pictures from different sources, often from amateur photographers.

The direct link to a given day's photo is

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/apYYMMDD.html

Where YY is the two-digit year, MM month and DD day. Please don't use the daily changing link (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html) when linking to a picture.

[tlbs101]

Speaking of APOD....

I've been having trouble seeing *anything* all week. The site takes too long to load (> 1 minute) and ends up timing-out Explorer.

Anyone else been having trouble lately?

(I have a very fast i-net connection BTW, so it's not like a slow modem 'thing")

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[Paracelsus]

YES!

I thought I was banned or something a couple of times.... :(

[ToSeek]

It may be a local thing. I've had problems all week getting to a DNS server. I keep getting told that websites cannot be found - and this has included places like Google and Yahoo. But I seem to be on the same network (in a broad sense) as APOD, so I never have problems getting to it even when everything else is inaccessible.

[please]

Links removed, they were to a website which daily copies the APOD in direct violation of the terms of use

<inappropriate language removed by moderator> the thumbnail image was from APOD site itself (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html). the large picture was from russian APOD mirror listed on APOD site (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html). the random link was redirecting to <inappropriate language removed by moderator> APOD site itself, again. sometimes forum moderators make me asking myself deep questions about human intelligence.

Putting the APOD on a website is in violation of the copyrights on the pictures, it's not something to do.

so we got copyright lawyer here. from his PoV, web 2.0 must be one big copyright violation. including youtube, including google image search, etc, etc. he would probably suggest to turn apod server off and lock it in a safe to prevent people from violating its copyrights :(