Mark the date for Gaia DR2: April 25, 2018

Before the previous summer it was already announced that the Gaia second data release would happen in April 2018. Today the official date for DR2 was announced: April 25, 2018. This data release will contain the positions, brightnesses, proper motions and parallaxes for 1.3 billion sources. The positions will be 1 milli arc second or better. But there is much more to this data release. For full details see

https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr2


Cheers, Wouter

Wouter,

The link doesn't appear to be working. Just FYI

Odd it works fine for me.

Owen

Thanks. Seems the website is down because it worked before. I’ll keep an eye on it.

May have been down earlier. Works now.

Good to know that it works now, thanks.

No joke, I made an entry in my phone calendar for this. Can't wait!