Hello Skywatchers!
It's halftime in Season 4 of Skywatch and the last one in 2010!
May the New Year be a blessed one and a good one for all of us!
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Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.
This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.
Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

A place to enjoy skies and views from all around the globe. Skywatch is only as good as the people who post here. It is a "not for profit, not for awards" fun place to post and link from. Simply take a picture which includes the Sky, post that picture on your blog and then come here and put your preferred name and link in the relevant places. Try to visit others on the links, those at the beginning and the end.
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| Early June, early dawn. Against a pastel sky laced with darker clouds, a dead tree's branches fill up with buccaneer birds - Grackles gathering from their nests, joining their flock for their day. |
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| This is the Peak Marker of the Mt Eden Volcano in Auckland. New Zealand. The strong wind has replaced the hot erupting volcano. |
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| I took the picture in Bangalore, India on May 15, 2010. It was a cloudy day and the sun rays were just magnificent. Wish I could move the mobile towers somewhere else though! |
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| Looking up on an evening walk with our dog in the southern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia |
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| A spectacular sunset over the beaches of Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. This photo was taken on December 30, 2006. I can assure you the beaches were much, more crowded the next evening! |
Well we had a little hickup. When the current
Team took over, there was a mixup concerning the age of
Skywatch and we continued under the impression, going into the 4th year - which would lead to the 5th anniversary.
...But Dot - the Skywatch Inventor provided us with the
correct date.
Skywatch was only one year old, when we took over, making it 3 years old now.
Honest mistake - that we hereby correct.
