Online Shared Observation Logs???

Is there any service online that allows for very easy to create observation
logs? Sort of like a astronomy blog of logs?

I googled, but all I find are individual sites, and not a service so to
speak...

Marc

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Hi Marc.

Marc Miles wrote:

Is there any service online that allows for very easy to create observation
logs? Sort of like a astronomy blog of logs?

I had a look for something like this a couple of years ago, but
unfortunately couldn't find anything. I ended up writing my own, which
is (still) developing at the awkward speed of my dwindling free time at
http://www.earlymorning.org/ . You're welcome to play with it, but it's
not really in a production state at the moment and possibly may never be.

My main interest with it has been in collating lots of information
together and being able to generate interesting reports about the sorts
of things people are doing, perhaps to help encourage other people to do
things and record what they're doing. It hasn't exactly gotten to that
point yet, though, particularly considering that I'm the only person who
uses it.


There are almost certainly some offline observation logging tools around
that will generate some html for you to upload to a website, if that's
suitable. I haven't used any beyond superficially, but someone else
here may be able to suggest one.

As well as that, I think there's also a PHP/MySQL project somewhere that
I found a couple of months ago. The developers seemed to be implying
that it's intended for clubs to set up a similar website for their
members to log observations in a similar way. Unfortuantely I can't
remember what it's called or the URL, and I couldn't find it at all when
I tried searching a week ago, but someone else following the group might
be able to. I *think* that new versions might have been announced a
couple of times in a sci.astro.* newsgroup within the last 6 months or so.


I hope this helps in some way.
Mike.

Ahhh, your site is very similar to what I was looking for. How many
catalogues of observable items do you have and where did you get that data?

Marc

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"Mike McGavin" wrote in message
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Hi Marc.

Marc Miles wrote:

Is there any service online that allows for very easy to create
observation
logs? Sort of like a astronomy blog of logs?

I had a look for something like this a couple of years ago, but
unfortunately couldn't find anything. I ended up writing my own, which is
(still) developing at the awkward speed of my dwindling free time at
http://www.earlymorning.org/ . You're welcome to play with it, but it's
not really in a production state at the moment and possibly may never be.

My main interest with it has been in collating lots of information
together and being able to generate interesting reports about the sorts of
things people are doing, perhaps to help encourage other people to do
things and record what they're doing. It hasn't exactly gotten to that
point yet, though, particularly considering that I'm the only person who
uses it.


There are almost certainly some offline observation logging tools around
that will generate some html for you to upload to a website, if that's
suitable. I haven't used any beyond superficially, but someone else here
may be able to suggest one.

As well as that, I think there's also a PHP/MySQL project somewhere that I
found a couple of months ago. The developers seemed to be implying that
it's intended for clubs to set up a similar website for their members to
log observations in a similar way. Unfortuantely I can't remember what
it's called or the URL, and I couldn't find it at all when I tried
searching a week ago, but someone else following the group might be able
to. I *think* that new versions might have been announced a couple of
times in a sci.astro.* newsgroup within the last 6 months or so.


I hope this helps in some way.
Mike.