Is VSP recently updated (and broken?)

Hi,

I just tried to print some charts and find that the lines to the comp stars are now “dashes” and they may point to the wrong stars or have gaps large enough to misidentify the comp stars. If there’s been a recent upgrade, I’d suggest to look at the update and fix it or restore the last version with connector lines until fixed. :slight_smile:

Please advise.

Rick Huziak
HUZ

Seems to only happen with certain choices. Tried “dot” charts and DSS charts at different scales and got good charts, but this choice generated a really bad chart.

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rick

Did you actually choose a mag limit of 24 or is that some sort of error? With that limit and a 2 deg field of view, there is no way a useful chart will be generated.

Roy

VSP seems to be unavailable now (14:40 UT March 6) I’ve been trying for a while to access it, but merely a spinning cursor in the tab bar.

Gary

Working again now (15:00 UT)

Gary

Can someone else verify that the standard fields are showing up in this webpage? Standard Fields
I can’t see them, and I’ve tried on two computers.

Currently an empty page…

Very bad idea to be making changes on a “live” system. To get here this morning I had to “choose all the hats” to confirm I wasn’t AI.

This AI stuff and confirming I am who I am is getting out of hand. It is not real security, except to a novice hacker and probably not even to them.

Gird your loins… it can only get better for we little humans.

Hello. I do see that this page is not loading correctly. We are looking into it now.

Thanks,
Bert Pablo
Staff Astronomer, AAVSO

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It appears that trying to include a DSS image causes chart creation to hang, without DSS its instantaneous.

Keith

The standard fields chart option in VSP does not seem to be working. I reported this once before and it got fixed temporarily, but the problem is back. I see the introductory material but not the list of standard fields.

https://apps.aavso.org/vsd/stdfields

Clear skies,

John

I see the same problem. It occurs when clicking the “Standard field charts” link in VSP. All that is displayed is a description. There should be a list of charts, including a link to each chart.

Hello Keith,

This specific issue should now be addressed. There were some issues on NASA SkyView side and we worked with them to get it sorted out.

Thanks,

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I tried VSP “Standard Field Charts” link just now and it still seems to be broken. It gives the description and mentions the fields are shown below, but in fact the fields are not shown below.

Is there some way I can help resolve this problem?

Thanks,

John

Hello John,

We are looking into this now. I thought this problem had been addressed and it seems others have said the same, so I am unsure what happened to cause it to break again.

Thanks,

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I can confirm that it was broken, then worked for awhile, then became broken again. I hope that helps.

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VPHOT currently doesn’t recognize that a user is logged in.

Ray