------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 3123 2015 Nov 12 15.40UT Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise, Basingstoke, Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074 INTERNET: GUY@TAHQ.DEMON.CO.UK Backup: gmh@wdcc1.bnsc.rl.ac.uk WORLD WIDE WEB http://www.theastronomer.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- EDITOR: HOLIDAYS The editor will be away and unavailable from November 21 and will resume contact with TA subscribers from Dec 9. During that period please contact Nick James or Denis Buczynski with any urgent messages. Their contact details are in the first page of each issue of ‘The Astronomer’ magazine. For potential discoveries please also e-mail an additional copy of your report to Nick or Denis to the editor’s mailbox to keep all our records complete. EDITORIAL: TA COMPUTER BREAKDOWN On 2015 November 12, late afternoon, a ‘blue crash screen’ indicated a serious problem with the main TA desktop computer. Our engineer called promptly the next morning and established we had lost the use of the hard disk and its contents could not been recovered. However TAHQ has a policy to create data/image backups daily and this has proved vital along with system recovery disks in a rebuild on to the new hard disk of the backup items. The backup does not include software so as of today the PC is working again but rebuild of programs will take some time though the main applications are already active. We offer apologies for any delayed replies to e-mails as the editor is now running approximately 300 messages behind. Guy M Hurst ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ Guy M Hurst 16 Westminster Close, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG22 4PP, England Tel/FAX (01256) 471074 Internet: guy@tahq.demon.co.uk Mobile: (07905) 332226 Personal WWW: http://www.guyhurst.co.uk Editor of The Astronomer                       http://www.theastronomer.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------