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SITE REPORT

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Last Update: 2008 September 1st

RECENT SITE AMENDMENTS

2008

Jul 11th - Added 'Jupiter Satellites' applet (by Gary Nugent) to 'Position of Jupiter' page.

Jul 4th - 'Find Sagittarius in the Night Sky' article online.

May 8th - Added 'Lunar Phases Applet' (by Gary Nugent) to 'Naked Eye Planets' article, together with a description of how to estimate the Moon's current position among the zodiac constellations.

Mar 15th - Added 'Vanishing Venus' (lunar occultation of Venus) animation to 'Naked Eye Planets' article.

Mar 5th - Added 'Mars in Gemini, 2007' photo and caption to 'Naked Eye Planets' article.

Jan 8th - Added 'Planet Visibility Table' for 2008 (also links to 2009 and 2010 tables) to 'Naked Eye Planets' article.

Jan 3rd - Added 'Mars Rise-Transit-Set Times' for Jan-May 2008 (the Aug-Dec 2007 table is now on a separate page).

2007

Nov 23rd - Removed Comet Holmes photo and caption from 'Naked Eye Planets' article [the comet is now fading].

Oct 30th - Added Comet Holmes photo and caption to 'Naked Eye Planets' article.

Oct 24th - Added 'Venus in Daylight' (link to new page) to 'Naked Eye Planets' article.

Oct 20th - Added a much-needed animation showing what causes the looping motions of planets to the 'Planet Movements' page.

Sep 27th - Added 'Venus, The Morning Star' photo to 'Naked Eye Planets' page.

Sep 16th - Added 'Moon near Jupiter dates 2007-8' to 'Position of Jupiter in the Night Sky' page.

Sep 11th - Added 'Moon near Saturn dates 2007-8' and Moon-Saturn photo to 'Saturn Orbit' page.

Aug 18th - Added 'Moon near Mars dates 2007-8' to 'Position of Mars in the Night Sky' page.

Aug 16th - Added latitudes 20º North and 25º South to Mars rising, transiting & setting tables on 'Position of Mars in the Night Sky' page (provides better global coverage of latitudes).

Aug 14th - Added rising, transit & setting tables of Mars to the 'Position of Mars in the Night Sky' page, and added annotated photo showing how to find the planet from Orion in 2007-8.

Jun 21st - Updated O.S. Grid Reference links on all archaeology pages to accommodate Multimap's new, draggable-style maps. Also added a few links to Google Maps' satellite photos.

Apr 6th - Added 'planets in motion' Flash animation (by David Colarusso) to 'Planet-Movements' article and added 'planet positions today' graphic (also by David Colarusso) to 'Naked Eye Planets' article.

Feb 14th - Added 'Venus Evening Apparition' animation to 'Naked Eye Planets' article (An animation showing a typical morning apparition of Mercury will appear at a later date).

Feb 6th - Added 'Jupiter Path 2005-9' to 'Naked Eye Planets' article.

Feb 1st - Added 'Jupiter, Libra and Scorpius At First Light' photo to 'Naked Eye Planets' article.

Jan 28th - Added 'Saturn in Leo, 2007' photo to 'Naked Eye Planets' article.

Jan 4th - Added 'Vesta Track 2007' to 'Naked Eye Planets' article.

2006

Dec 7th - Added 'Neptune Path 2006-23' page to 'Naked Eye Planets' article.

Dec 3rd - Added 'Uranus Path 2006-19' page to 'Naked Eye Planets' article.

Nov 21st - Added 'Jupiter Path 2006-7' diagram to 'Planet Movements' page.

Nov 19th - Added 'Position of Mars, 2007-2008' page to 'Naked Eye Planets' article.

Nov 10th - Added 'Mars Path Animation 2007-8' diagram to 'Planet Movements' page.

Oct 23rd - Added 'Path of Pluto' diagram to 'Naked Eye Planets' page.

Aug 22nd - Added 'Path of Saturn in Leo' diagram to 'Saturn Orbit' page.

Mar 23rd - Revised appearance and text of England photo gallery and added O.S. Map (Multimap) links.

Mar 12th - Revised appearance and text of Scotland & Wales photo galleries and added O.S. Map (Multimap) links.

2005

Nov 16th - 'Wandering Stars' and 'The Naked Eye Planets' articles online.

IN PREPARATION

Prehistoric Sites in England - Page 5

Prehistoric Sites in Wales - Page 5

'The Stones of Bodmin Moor' - a short film set to music

The Standing Stones of Glamorgan & Gwent, South Wales

Video images of the Planets through an astronomical telescope

Digital camera photos of the Night Sky (complete revision of 'Night Sky' page)

Revision of Archaeoastronomy pages

SITE TRAFFIC

Traffic stats from September 2001 to March 11th 2002 were compiled using an R-JEM Enterprises counter. They are not listed here but they are included in the cumulative total visitors and page views, given below the table. From March 11th 2002 to September 20th 2002, stats were compiled using a GoStats counter. From September 21st 2002, stats were compiled using a SiteMeter counter.

Cumulative Totals to 2008 Aug 31st (inc):

Visitors: 388,326

Page Views: 638,783

Recorded Countries: ca.196

(Most recently recorded 'new' country: St Helena)

Yearly Totals

Martin J. Powell

Wales, United Kingdom