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2009 Posters and Imagery

// June 16th, 2009 // No Comments » // .Astronomy 2 (2009), Conference Info

The posters for the conference have now begun appearing in astronomy departments. If you’d like to promote the conference online or print your own paraphernalia then you can find a Flickr set containing the images in various forms. If there is a specific format that would suit you better drop me a line in the [...]

.Astronomy gets some IYA love

// June 9th, 2009 // No Comments » // IYA 2009, New Media

The .Astronomy conference is featured  on the front page of the offical International Year of Astronomy webpage, as a “featured event”. As the 2nd edition of .Astronomy will take place during the IYA, from 30 November to 4 December, we expect that many of our discussions, particulaly on outreach and education, will have an IYA-tinge [...]

.Astronomy 2009: Programme and venue details

// June 5th, 2009 // No Comments » // .Astronomy 2 (2009)

Preparations for the 2009 .Astronomy workshop (30 November - 4 December) are progressing quite nicely, and we’ve added some details on the venue and programme sections of these pages. Go take a look and let us know if you have any questions.
We’re in the process of putting together a list of people who are maybe [...]

.Astronomy 2009 Dates

// May 18th, 2009 // No Comments » // .Astronomy 2 (2009), Astronomy Hack Day, Conference Info, Twitter

.Astronomy 2009 will be held in the Lorentz Center, part of Leiden University in the Netherlands between 30th November and 4th December 2009. We aim to explore further the themes outlined in our first conference (Cardiff, 2008) and to have hands-on, hack-day-style sessions where new ideas can be developed.

Galaxy Zoo

// April 15th, 2009 // No Comments » // .Astronomy (2008), Citizen Science, Crowd Sourcing

Chris talks about Galaxy Zoo at the first .Astronomy Conference, in Cardiff 2008.

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