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        <title>Paper published!</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[After finally getting around to doing the corrections, the first paper on this system has been published in <i>Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.</i>  You can view the abstract <a href="http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/138/paper/AS07011.htm" target="_blank">here,</a> or feel free to contact the author <i>(roy@apta.net.au)</i> for the full paper.]]></description>
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        <pubdate>Tue, 22 May 2007 11:05:44 +0000</pubdate>
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        <title>Staying sane!</title>
        <link>http://www.apta.net.au/apta/NEWS</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Comprehensive "sanity checking" of the datastore has been introduced.  The datastore contains all information and images associated with observation requests.  Requests can be quite complicated, and the datastore can sometimes be a very busy place.  Comprehensive checking of the datastore is now performed every hour, to make sure that everything remains as it should.]]></description>
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        <pubdate>Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:33:20 +0000</pubdate>
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        <title>Optimal scheduling.</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A paper describing the scheduling engine developed for SAROS has been submitted to <i>Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.</i>  It is currently undergoing final corrections.  A preprint will be available from this website once the paper has been accepted for publication.]]></description>
        <author>APTA News</author>
        <pubdate>Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:44:19 +0000</pubdate>
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        <title>Image plans planned.</title>
        <link>http://www.apta.net.au/apta/NEWS</link>
        <description><![CDATA["Image plan" suport has been introduced.  Clients can sign-up and be able to request images, up to a specified maximum per week or month.  For example, you might choose a plan which allows you to submit up to 3 requests per week.  Details of the various plans will be available soon.]]></description>
        <author>APTA News</author>
        <pubdate>Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:44:24 +0000</pubdate>
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        <title>Telescope <i>springbrook</i> online!</title>
        <link>http://www.apta.net.au/apta/NEWS</link>
        <description><![CDATA[A new telescope, operated by Springbrook Observatory, has joined the network.  Some of the first images from springbrook can be seen in the <a href="/apta/GALLERY">image gallery.</a>]]></description>
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        <pubdate>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:52:44 +0000</pubdate>
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        <title>Public image gallery available</title>
        <link>http://www.apta.net.au/apta/NEWS</link>
        <description><![CDATA[A public-access image gallery has now been released.  This gallery shows the most recently observed images from the telescopes, along with "user areas" which display images from website users which they have chosen to make public.  The gallery can be accessed by clicking <a href="/apta/GALLERY">here.</a>]]></description>
        <author>APTA News</author>
        <pubdate>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:52:44 +0000</pubdate>
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        <title>Server upgrade</title>
        <link>http://www.apta.net.au/apta/NEWS</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The APTA server has been given a significant hardware upgrade recently.  This has resulted in considerable performance improvements, for both the website and backend systems.]]></description>
        <author>APTA News</author>
        <pubdate>Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:55:47 +0000</pubdate>
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        <title>Targeting Toutatis</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[APTA observatory <i>rochedale</i> successfully observed the close passage of the asteroid 4179 Toutatis.  An animation of these images has been placed on the NASA NEO website, <a href=http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news144.html>here.</a>  This animation also appeared on the Channel 10 (Brisbane) nightly news bulletin on 29-Sep-2004.]]></description>
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        <pubdate>Fri, 01 Oct 2004 03:06:40 +0000</pubdate>
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