No more clouds….

Distant Suns and Grand Tour before it have made use of “cloud servers” over the past many years to layer current weather patterns on the model of the earth. Unfortunately, the cloud service is no longer providing imagery for free, as only paid subscribers may obtain the imagery. For the time being this will be switched off in in the various products that make use of it until I can determine if there’s a way to support the new subscription based...

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In honor of the 42nd anniversary of the Moon landing…

In honor of the 42nd anniversary of the Moon landing, half of all proceeds from the sale of Distant Suns today and tomorrow will go to help the SETI Institute continued search for extraterrestrial life. The institute, located in Mountain View, California, currently has a fundraising drive to help keep their telescope array operating through the rest of the year. The Allen Telescope Array was initially funded in part by Paul Allen, Microsoft’s...

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