2009 Sponsors

.Astronomy is a young and growing community and the 2009 conference is being generously supported by the following organisations: >> ASTRON >> British Council >>...

2009 Posters and Imagery

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 comments either here on on the photos themselves. [Flickr set:...

.Astronomy Gets Some IYA Love

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 to them. Indeed, we thing it’s the perfect...

.Astronomy 2009: Programme and venue details

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 interested in attending, so if you have great ideas or you have a...

.Astronomy 2009 Dates

.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. Registration is not yet open for the conference. When it begins we will announce it here...