[Difx-users] GSFC website down

[Walter Brisken]

Hi Luis,

With David's help I have been keeping an accessible copy of the current 
EOP files at ftp.lbo.us in /pub/staff/wbrisken/EOP .

I hope this helps,

 	Walter

On Wed, 13 Feb 2019, Luis Henry Quiroga Nuñez wrote:

> Dear David,
>
> Following the discussion below about the accessibility to the EOP files. I was wondering if there is a server that we could access to get such files. I am some VLBA data from 2015-2017 and I need such files. Or could you please provide me with the files in order to proceed with the analysis?
> I appreciate your help in this matter,
> Regards,
>
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>
> Difx users,
>
> There is a transition occurring at GSFC. Access to the
> https://gemini.gsfc.nasa.gov <https://gemini.gsfc.nasa.gov/> URL is being shut down. I
> just got back from travel and this is happening a bit
> earlier than I expected. All of our web pages and data
> files that have previously been available at
> https://gemini.gsfc.nasa.gov <https://gemini.gsfc.nasa.gov/> will be copied daily to
> a computer that will be accessible from outside of GSFC.
>
> The EOP files should be available at
> https://vlbi.gsfc.nasa.gov/services/apriori <https://vlbi.gsfc.nasa.gov/services/apriori>
> when the transition is completed. I believe our systems
> administrator is out with the flu though, so it may be
> a few days.
>
> I am now producing two versions of the EOP file:
>
> usno_finals.erp - the full version, ~39 years of
> daily EOP's.
>
> usno500_finals.erp - a shortened version, just the last
> 500 EOP points. It goes from around a year ago
> to a few months into the future. I recommend most
> users should start using this file, unless you are
> correlating something more than a year old. It is
> also small enough to be Emailed to the difx group
> whereas the full file is too big. I am attaching
> today's version.
>
> The EOP files get generated at ~4:30 AM Eastern
> time, and they will be copied to the external
> machine at ~5:00 AM Eastern time. This translates
> to 10:00 UTC during Eastern Standard Time, and
> 09:00 UTC during Eastern Daylight Time (which
> starts March 11 here).
>
> There may be other files that some of you have
> been downloading that we are not aware of. If so,
> let me know. And feel free to forward this to
> others who may not be on the difx mailing list.
>
> Best Regards,
> David
>
>

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