Cripes, I’m getting behinderer every day, so I missed posting about this: The 100 Hours of Astronomy effort began yesterday! It’s a cornerstone project of IYA, to do 100 continuous hours of astronomy-related observations or activities.
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For example, telescopes all over the planet are observing the skies and webcasting it all live.
There are star parties all around the world; Popular Mechanics has an alphabetical list of the ones in the US.
Even space probes are in on it; the Cassini Saturn probe team posted their favorite Saturn images on their site in honor of Galileo.
100 Hours was honored in an APOD image, too.
You can follow all this by going to the 100 Hours site, and get info as it happens on their Twitter feed, too. And don’t forget to classify those galaxies!
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:06 am
I been watching Around the World in 80 Telescopes since the start and apart from a few blackouts and glitches it has been fantastic! Tours of Gemini North, Subaru, UKIRT, Keck, Apex and Alma etc etc. Just ignore the chatroom which is more than usually vacuous.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:22 am
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I takes bloody Internet Explorer 8 that long to load a page!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 9:23 am
Around the World… is everything that 365 Days of Astronomy isn’t – messy and professional and fun all at the same time. I’m really enjoying it. Good for ESO!
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:41 am
Robert, no one part of IYA’s efforts is supposed to be the be-all and end-all of IYA. Each part gives us a different perspective of IYA and this love of astronomer we’re all trying to share. I have material in 365 Days and I’ve worked with one of the observatories on the 80 Telescopes tour — and, as an IYA booster, I blog each day. Millions of us are involved in the total effort, which is big, fun, messy, professional, home-spun, lovable, and did I mention fun? I’m enjoying every bit of it!
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April 3rd, 2009 at 9:49 am
I sell/do tech support on telescopes, so I am doing my part!
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:02 am
Yeah, I work on IYA in multiple capacities, both personal and professional…that’s what us education and outreach people do. I am taking telescopes to star parties the next two nights (as I did for Earth Hour last weekend) and will continue the Galileoscope evangalization as it gets closer to delivery.
Check local astronomy clubs. I have noticed lots of events happening here that the leaders have not listed on the 100 Hours web site, so don’t despair if you don’t see something listed near you. Try a google search for something like “(nearest major city) astronomy club” and see if they list anything.
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:11 am
Canada Post chose this week to issue its new IYA commemorative stamps:
http://victoria.rasc.ca/events/iya2009/archive/2009.04.02-IYAstamps.htm
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:44 am
I wouldn’t say you missed it — you mentioned it and linked to it in “A million galaxies in a hundred hours”.
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:53 am
Phil – just saw you make a cameo on the broadcast in the introductory video for the Swift telescope!
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:18 pm
We are primed and ready at Palomar to end the show Saturday morning at 1:40 am PDT (8:40 UT). It should be fun.
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:33 pm
I really wish it wasn’t so cloudy. There’s a star party about 1 mile from my house at the local community college, but I doubt they’re having it when it’s completely overcast.
April 4th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
A gay marriage story gets two hundred responses while an earlier, serious astronomy story gets only a dozen responses, including mine?
We’ve already beaten the marriage issue to death.
Let’s explore the universe, shall we? Looking inward, we see blood and bowels. Looking outward we see…..everything!
April 5th, 2009 at 4:59 am
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