into a black hole

August 4, 2009 11:17 AM

Any Cloudy Nights folks on MeFi? I am googling around in getting going with backyard astronomy and Cloudy Nights appears to be (or to have been) a decent resource, but it has been nothing but failed MySQL connections and php pathing errors since I started digging. Any info? Is it dead, Bones?

I did find this older AskMe which includes a bunch of good info, btw.

http://ask.metafilter.com/13386/quality-astronomytelscope-websites

posted by mwhybark to Science & Nature (4 answers total)

If you do a google search for Cloudy Nights, a link at the bottom of the page has several links to member websites.
posted by kldickson at 11:21 AM on August 4, 2009

Your link to Cloudy Nights just worked for me -- does it work when you're logged out? Can you try logging out and back in?
posted by taumeson at 11:59 AM on August 4, 2009

Response by poster: Yep, looks like it's up now. maybe just luck of the draw if they have a shaky back end and I ahev been hitting it when it's all blowed up.
posted by mwhybark at 1:23 PM on August 4, 2009

Best answer: They had a note on the site yesterday mentioning database problems with the forum. It's been up and down all day. Hopefully they'll get it completely resolved soon.
posted by foggy out there now at 5:09 PM on August 4, 2009