.Astronomy- Networked Astronomy and the New Media

Live Video IYA 2009 Conference

UStream Video

During our conference (Nov 30th to Dec 4th) we recorded and streamed as many sessions as possible through our UStream.tv channel. Click 'Read More' below to visit our full UStream page and to see more videos from both the Leiden 2009 and Cardiff 2008 conferences.
.Astronomy and IYA2009

The vision of the International Year of Astronomy is to “help the citizens of the world rediscover their place in the Universe through the day- and night-time sky”. The internet has been instrumental in bringing the activities of the IYA to a huge public with blogs, podcasts and webcasts. During the .Astronomy workshop we will review the success of these initiatives and discuss how to keep the momentum of the IYA into the coming years.
.Astronomy 2009 - Leiden

The second .Astronomy conference ran from November 30th to December 4th in the Lorentz Centre in Leiden. 50 participants from around the world will be took part in a week-long conference exploring the connections betwen astronomy and the Internet.

.Astronomy 2009

Google Sky and Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope have taken astronomy into the home with stunning elegance. Exciting citizen science projects enlist the general public into world-class astronomy research. Data mining, robotic telescopes and virtual observatories will soon take petabytes of data to a global audience of professionals and amateurs. Communication and networking technologies are changing science, for both researchers and the public alike.

In 2008 the first .Astronomy conference took place in Cardiff, to discuss the ideas and methods emerging in this new era and the way in which they present interesting and novel opportunities for both conducting and communicating astronomy.