DeepSkyPedia:History

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	Current jobs
Articles about Deep Sky objects	5,050 articles about individual objects from 118 catalogs so far
Reports	Translating 57 of my reports from croatian to english
Messier catalog	WikiProject:Messier: Adding descriptions (done up to M 30). Mostly just for naked eye and small binos, somewhere for all instruments. Best described so far are M 21, M 23, M 26, M 28, and M 30.
Object infoboxes	WikiProject:Infoboxes
	2010.
	February
February 16	5,000 articles about Deep sky objects (individual and in groups)
February 8	4,900 articles about Deep sky objects (individual and in groups)
February 6	First reports for objects in the constellation of Pictor. Finally, Deepskypedia has reports for all 88 constellations.
	2009.
	September
September 25-29	Planetary nebulae: Kohoutek, Weinberger, Peimbert and Costero (PC), and Wray infoboxes created. Open clusters: Dolidze, Lynga, Loden, Melotte, and Pismis infoboxes created or improved.
September 18-24	Planetary nebulae: Haro, Jonckheere, Jones, Perek, and Peimbert-Batiz infoboxes created. Open clusters: Berkeley, Collinder, Czernik, and King infoboxes created.
September 17	All Henize infoboxes created. If you want to write about an Henize planetary nebula, go here: category:Henize.
September 16	All Minkowski infoboxes created. If you want to write about an Minkowski planetary nebula, go here: category:Minkowski.
September 9	All Terzan infoboxes created. If you want to write about an Terzan globular cluster, go here: category:Terzan.
September 8	All Ruprecht infoboxes created. If you want to write about an open cluster from Ruprecht catalog, go here: category:Ruprecht or (if it still doesn't exist) here: category:Unused Ruprecht infoboxes.
	August
August 26	All 100 HCG infoboxes created.
August 25	HCG catalog finaly has all 100 articles!
August 24	New reports: First ... and second night on Biokovo. I observed over 90 objects in 2 nights. Reports will be completed soon!
	July
July 31	4,500 articles about individual Deep sky objects
	June
June 24	4,400 articles about individual Deep sky objects! New articles go a little bit slower after first 4,000 :)
	May
May 15	All 89^[1] constellation infoboxes created
	April
April 14	Adding links: arpgalaxies.com
April 5	Adding links: Rony's ETX-105 Site
April 2	Adding links: Southern Sentinel Observing Reports
April 2	3,000 NGC articles! Total number of articles > 4,200.
April 1	Adding links: Brian Rachford observing reports (Herschell 400 with 6" Newton)
	March
March 31	Number of catalogs reached 100! DeepSkyPedia has articles about objects from 100 different catalogs - ADS, Abell Galaxy Catalog, AND ... ZW.
March 26	Adding links: IAAC: The netastrocatalog-announce Archives (up to January 2009)
March 24	Adding links: deepskylog.org - all 2218 reports in english until March 23th 2009
March 23	4,000 articles about individual Deep sky objects!
March 20	Adding links: Saguaro Astronomy Club - Steve Coe's observing notes
March 17	All Bochum infoboxes created. If you want to write about an open cluster from Bochum catalog, go here: category:Bochum or (if it still doesn't exist) here: category:Unused Bochum infoboxes.
March 11	2,500 NGC articles! Total number of articles > 3,600.
March 8	3,500 articles in about individual Deep sky objects!
March 5	All Basel infoboxes created. If you want to write about an open cluster from Basel catalog, go here: category:Basel or (if it still doesn't exist) here: category:Unused Basel infoboxes.
March 3	WikiProject:DoDz: All 11 articles about Dolidze-Dzimselejsvili open clusters and asterisms are completed.
	February
February 20	Adding links: Juha's Deep sky sketches
February 3	Adding links: Iiro's DeepSky Sketches
	January
January 29	3,000 articles in about individual Deep sky objects!
January 28	Adding links: Messier objects @ Internet Amateur Astronomers Catalog (IAAC)
January 27	2,000 NGC articles! Total number of articles > 2,800.
January 12	2,500 articles!
January 12	All Deep Sky Log 2.0 reports linked! Short, but consise reports - many of them with binos (good to fill the niche!) visualdeepsky @ astronomyblogs.com (2008) - few nice reports with 36". All linked.
January 11	All IC infoboxes created. If you want to write about an IC object go here: category:IC or (if it still doesn't exist) here: category:Unused IC infoboxes.
January 9	New Main Page
January 7	All Abell infoboxes created. If you want to write about an Abell planetary nebula object go here: category:Abell.
January 4	Number of catalogs reached 75! DeepSkyPedia has articles about objects from 75 different catalogs - ADS, Abell Galaxy Catalog, Abell planetaries, Alessi ... Waterloo, Zwicky's catalog of galaxies.
	2008.
Articles so far (with non-empty "Appearance" section) mainly Cassiopeia few other prominent objects see Quality articles
External sources linked in 2008: Jaakko Saloranta - great shetches with relatively modest instruments! Jere Kahanpää - another gerat shetch maker from Finland! Internet Amateur Astronomers Catalog (IAAC) - more than 5000 reports! Messier NGC IC other Jeff Burton (x.astrogeek.org) - very good pages, easy to browse, lots of reports (multiple stars are stil on linking to do list) Steve Coe's reports - Unbelivable number of observed objects (second only to Steve Gottlieb?) - partialy linked
December 1	All Messier infoboxes created. If you want to write about an Messier object go here: category:Messier.
December 1	All NGC infoboxes created. If you want to write about an NGC object go here: category:NGC or (if it still doesn't exist) here: category:Unused NGC infoboxes.
October 9	DeepSkyPedia started!