Conference cool links
During the talks a number of links (#coollink) were posted by the conference participants on the twitter stream (#dotastro). Here is a list of them:
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Around the World in 80 telescopes
Behind the scenes of Around the World in 80 telescopes - Sixty Symbols: Videos about the symbols of Physics and Astronomy
- This stuff is FAR!: The video to George Hrab’s theme song for the 365 Days of Astronomy
- The World Wide Telescope: an application that lets you explore some of the highest resolution imagery of the universe.
- La Repubblica features the Chromoscope
- Astrotagging explained: Astrotags are a new way to label your astronomy photos with their celestial subject and its location.
- PinpointWCS: This software simplifies retrieval of world coordinate system (WCS) data from FITS images for outreach astronomy images. Desktop planetarium packages aware of these data can intelligently position astronomical images on the digital sky
- IR Galactic Survey maps: A gorgeous composite of several infrared bands from two Spitzer Space Telescope surveys, MIPSGAL and GLIMPSE, that span along the galactic plane.
- Another Galactic Survey map: Map of the 24 micron band component of the MIPSGAL survey, which spans along the galactic plane.
- Planetario Economico: A cheap planetarium dome and projection system to build in schools. (PDF)
- LSST Science book: The Large SYnoptic Survey Telescope will observe the sky in optical bands over wide fields to faint magnitudes with a fast cadence will enable many of the exciting science opportunities of the next decade.
- Twitter feeds: Should we display the twitter feed live on a second screen?
- #dotastro: trending on SciencePond
- Supernova Factory: Discovery made with e-VLBI (PDF)
- e-VLBI: Live data form the e-VLBI network!
- European Very Long Baseline network
- EXPReS: Express Production Real-time e-VLBI Service
- the e-Astronomer: Andy Lawerence’s blog
- Galaxy Zoo Mergers
- Galaxy Zoo: Exploring the Motivations of Citizen Science Volunteers: Study into the motivations and demographics of Galaxy Zoo volunteers
- Citing and Reading Behaviours in High-Energy Physics. How a Community Stopped Worrying about Journals and Learned to Love Repositories
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