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Dominic Ford
Keymaster

Hi folks,

Just a comment that I’m aware it’s really annoying that the images of C/2023 A3 are currently split between two galleries:

https://britastro.org/observations/index.php?library=0&tagged_object=CK23A030
https://britastro.org/observations/index.php?library=0&tagged_object=C%2F2023+A3

This is due to there being two duplicate entries for the comet in the image gallery object database. There are supposed to be lots of checks to stop this from happening, but I’ve clearly mucked something up. This affects quite a few other comets too. I think the script which scans the MPC website for new comets, and the script which ingests the Comet Section archive, are automatically creating these duplicate entries. Grrargh!

I will fix this and merge the galleries as soon as I can, but I fear I can’t easily fix this immediately. In meantime, feel free to tag your images with either “C/2023 A3” or “C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)”, and eventually they’ll end up in the same place.

Cheers,

Dominic