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[desertstars]

I noticed this morning that the CSC for Tucson has not updated since June 11. Anyone else stuck in the past right now?

 

Since the news of Attilla Danko's passing, I've feared something like this in the future. And expected it. A great loss, if the time has come.

[wrvond]

Mine appears to be up to date. 

 

Sorry, retired and didn't realize we are so far into June. It is June, isn't it???

 

I'm showing last update 2025-06-11.

Edited by wrvond, 15 June 2025 - 10:11 AM.

[NinePlanets]

On another thread somewhere (yesterday?), folks were reporting the site certificate out of date. With my Win7 and Win10 machines running Firefox, simply clicking "Advanced" then "Accept the Risk" allowed everything to work fine.

 

This morning, neither of those machines will get an update beyond the 11th, regardless of Chache clearing! HOWEVER, my Android tablet still shows today's data just fine!  ???

[JMP]

I've been having the same issue as NinePlanets the last few days-

[Skywatchr]

Same here...  No updates since the 11th...  But reading this suggests updates will not be as fast as Attilla did them...

 

https://www.cleardar...onal/index.html

 

Also, I don't know the location so it is possible wildfires may have something to do with it.

Edited by Skywatchr, 15 June 2025 - 10:00 AM.

[Starman1]

Astrospheric has the same data and can store 5 different sites you can switch among.

[Matt Lindsey]

The CSC for Cherry Springs is current for today.

[Kefka1138]

Astrospheric has the same data and can store 5 different sites you can switch among.

Wow, thanks for the tip, Don! Wasn't aware of this resource before. Very nice tool. 

[NinePlanets]

Well, glory be!

It fixed itself!

[desertstars]

Well, glory be!

It fixed itself!

Mine, too! 

 

I wonder if it had anything to do with the internet outages I've been reading about of late?

[Jon Isaacs]

Well, glory be!

It fixed itself!

 

Mine too. Now if it could just fix the seeing... But all in all, I'll take it.

 

 

Jon

Edited by Jon Isaacs, 16 June 2025 - 11:27 AM.

[JayinUT]

 I use Astrospheric and have my five most used sites saved. I actually pay for the premium features as I have found it to be a good gauge for local conditions. 

[Jay_Reynolds_Freeman]

For what it may be worth, I use ClearDarkSky a great deal, and as of today, 16 June 2025, the following rather odd behavior has persisted for several days:

 

On Safari, running on four different Apple platforms (two Macs, one iPhone, one iPad), the display updates normally.

 

On FireFox, running on the *same* two Macs, the display has not updated past 11 June, 2025. I have cleared caches and cookies, and restarted both of these Macs. They happen to used different processors (Intel versus Apple silicon M3) and different versions of macOS.

 

I am happy ClearDarkSky on Safari, but I hope that reporting the issue in this thread may be useful to someone.

 

 

Clear sky ...

[NinePlanets]

Great. It broke. It's Wednesday again. 

[pugliano]

For what it may be worth, I use ClearDarkSky a great deal, and as of today, 16 June 2025, the following rather odd behavior has persisted for several days:

 

On Safari, running on four different Apple platforms (two Macs, one iPhone, one iPad), the display updates normally.

 

On FireFox, running on the *same* two Macs, the display has not updated past 11 June, 2025. I have cleared caches and cookies, and restarted both of these Macs. They happen to used different processors (Intel versus Apple silicon M3) and different versions of macOS.

 

I am happy ClearDarkSky on Safari, but I hope that reporting the issue in this thread may be useful to someone.

 

 

Clear sky ...

Non related to astronomy, there's a website I frequent that all of a sudden has stopped working in Firefox, but still works perfectly in Safari. This has happened to me before with other websites as well. Not sure what's going on with Firefox. Maybe the next update will fix it.

[NinePlanets]

OK, this morning ClearSky works fine on the Win10/Firefox, but not with the Win7/Firefox. Android broke last night.

I guess this isn't as simple as one would think.

[desertstars]

OK, this morning ClearSky works fine on the Win10/Firefox, but not with the Win7/Firefox. Android broke last night.

I guess this isn't as simple as one would think.

Apparently not simple at all. Back into the middle of last week. With a serious sense of regret, I've replaced it with the Astrospheric link provided by Don.

 

Of course, I'll check the CSC from time to time to see how it fares. You just never know...

[Starman1]

Apparently not simple at all. Back into the middle of last week. With a serious sense of regret, I've replaced it with the Astrospheric link provided by Don.

 

Of course, I'll check the CSC from time to time to see how it fares. You just never know...

www.astrospheric.com

Create an account and you can enter/store your favorite sites and get info about each one by merely clicking a tab.

Click on the buttons directly above the dates to see an area map with the overlay for each weather feature.

 

Alas, ClearSkyCharts is not functional for me today.  Refreshing the page does not bring up this week's data.

Edited by Starman1, 17 June 2025 - 10:04 AM.

[desertstars]

That's A-s-t-r-o-s-p-h-e-r-i-c.

 

Fixed it.

[BrushPilot]

Same here — CSC works in Safari but not Chrome. Did the cache clean as well, no joy.

[PlanetNamek]

Just use Astrospheric instead. It's a little more accurate since you can center on your actual location and not necessarily a place you're just close to.

[NinePlanets]

CSC has been fixed for a couple of days now.

All better!

[desertstars]

CSC has been fixed for a couple of days now.

All better!

Yep, currently holding its own.   

[Jon Isaacs]

Just use Astrospheric instead. It's a little more accurate since you can center on your actual location and not necessarily a place you're just close to.

 

My two sites are about 5 miles from a clear sky chart location. The differences are geographic and I'm doubtful the Astrospheric takes geography on that scale into account.

 

I'm interested in cloudiness, transparency. This is the Clear Sky Chart for a site 3.8 miles from our place.  I'm expecting something similar.

 

 

Jon

[mountain monk]

At home my Clear Sky Chart location is less than one mile away. Unfortunately, there are no charts at my main observing locations. I look at both.

 

Jack