2008 Proceedings

If you’re interested in buying a copy of the proceedings of the 2008 .Astronomy Conference in Cardiff then now’s the time! Since the 2009 event is about to kick off we’re reducing the price to £15/€17. If you’re attending the conference then postage is free because you can collect your copy next week during the conference. If you’d like to pick up the previous...

Galaxy Zoo

Chris talks about Galaxy Zoo at the first .Astronomy Conference, in Cardiff 2008. Galaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project which invites members of the public to assist in classifying over a million galaxies. It is an example of Citizen science as it enlists the help of members of the public to help in scientific research. An improved version - Galaxy Zoo 2 - went live on the 17th...

Conference Archive Opens

Over the coming days and weeks, the .Astronomy Conference Archive will begin to fill up. There are a handful of talks available already and more will be added each day. Each talk that was given as the conference, including the video talks, are available. You can download the presentation slides and watch the video of the talk. Eventually you will also be able to read the conference proceedings...

Conference Ends

All good things must come to an end. The conference is now over, but in some ways this is the start of other things. The conference proceedings are now going to be written and compiled into a book. You’ll be hearing a lot more about this book in the coming weeks and months on this website. You will be able to purchase it here and to discuss it here. Over the next few weeks the video from...

Log in and Join the Conference

You can watch us this week as the conference progresses in many ways. We are on Ustream, Twitter and YouTube. Twitter is integrated into the site in the sidebar of the homepage, but if you want to Tweet  a question to us then simply include the text ‘@dotastronomy’ in your message on Twitter. YouTube videos are going up during the event, but may be delayed. Not all talks are...