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Why does NASA SkyWatch take so long to start?

April 26, 2017NASA skywatch

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Why does NASA SkyWatch take so long to start?

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There is a substantial amount of data to download the first time you access NASA SkyWatch. The application itself is approximately 500K with other text files (cities, solar constants, constellations, etc) totalling another 85K that need to be downloaded as well. Subsequent accesses will not need to download the files again and the start up time will be reduced for initialization.