expres:sa1:iya2009demo
2009: The International Year of Astronomy
This page can be used to upload images (official or of a personal nature), text, anecdotes or links to press/media coverage of the 33 hour marathon e-VLBI observation held during the opening ceremony of the International Year of Astronomy in Paris on January 15th/16th 2009.
The information you submit may be used in the final report on the event.
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Material relating to the opening ceremony/observation
- The European Commission's press release
- Phys.org (UK modified) and derivatives thereof Univ. of Manchester, newswire.com bgfactor.org (in Russian) and science.compulenta.ru (also in Russian) - the Russian referral sites generated quite a lot of pageviews.
- The demo is mentioned on skyandtelescope.com by Mike Simmons, co-chair of the 100 hours of astronomy project in which “we” most likely will perform again!
- The demo is mentioned on the dutch IYA2009 site (text is Dutch d'oh!) and on astronomie.nl (also in Dutch)
- NICT press release (Japanese)
- Onsala press release (PDF)
- TIGO press release (PDF, Spanish)
- Magda (from Torun)'s e-VLBI page generated a lot of traffic (#1, even!)
- Harro's personal pictures of and at and outside the event IYA 2009 Demo
- Pictures by Marieke Baan
- Stefanie's personal pictures of the event and Paris
- One of the posters presented in Paris can be found here
- 'obviously' we're mentioned on Slashdot, a post based on this article (yet again from Oz)
- Watch Huib live on stage at the conference (Windows Media alert, mirrored here for posterity)
- New Scientist did report - very shortly and incompletely - in the paper version (scanned), also available online (see “Telescope marathon”)
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