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...

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...

Carnival of Space 71

Next week the .Astronomy Conference will take place at Cardiff University in the UK and so we asked if we could host this week’s Carnival of Space. This helps us accomplish two important things. Firstly, we wanted to make sure you all knew that this conference about astronomy and the Internet is happening, and that you will be able to watch it as a video podcast next week. Secondly, there...