• Dec 2007 – I got a “junk” telescope, a hobby killer from a local supermarket. I had a lot of troubles to find the brightest astronomical target (our moon) and especially to keep it in my field of view; in a few days I got rid of the telescope convinced that the next telescope (if ever) will be a motorized one
• Dec 2008 – got my serious telescope (more details on my astronomy section of my blog) – it was a small goto refractor and I started to enjoy deep space objects; I finally got hooked by the “astronomy” bug
• Jun 2009 – I’ve started to create Spica application - a planetarium software (Windows .NET client application) – I’ve never really released it due to various factors
• May 2010 – Started the implementation of Sky Map Online website by reusing some of my Spica Windows application source code
• Jun 2010 - Finished the first version of Sky Map Online website and had it hosted on a permanent server
• Jun 2010 - present - Different site improvements and development of new features (HTML5 page, constellation data and game, website tweaks, comments page, etc)
• Jan 2011 - Release of SkyMap for Windows Phone 7 application

After we released SkyMap for Windows Phone 7 application and took care of some marketing tasks, we got the chance to set up this blog system for Sky Map Online website.

The plan now is to do some redesign of the main website and move the content of description page to this blog system. We're not sure about the comments page, if that is going to stay on the main site or it will be replaced by the more extensive comments functionality provided on this blog.