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## [Jonathan McDowell—Grandmaster Archivist of the Space Age](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/jonathan-mcdowell-grandmaster-archivist-of-the-space-age/3074)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [21 April 2023 14:20 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/jonathan-mcdowell-grandmaster-archivist-of-the-space-age/3074 "2023-04-21T14:20:17Z")

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Jonathan McDowell is an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts whose “day job” is a member of the Chandra X-ray Center, using the eponymous spacecraft …

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## [Discourse User Documentation](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/discourse-user-documentation/91)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [12 October 2021 19:55 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/discourse-user-documentation/91 "2021-10-12T19:55:59Z")

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Discourse is the software upon which SCANALYST runs. The software is designed to be intuitive and relatively easy to figure out, sharing many conventions with other discussion board systems. However, as with any comple…