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Maker Faire Austin 2007
Armchair Astronomy
Maker Stage , Sunday 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
You can now use an observatory telescope even though you are sitting at your computer at home. Tierney of SLOOH.COM will talk about a web site for armchair astronomers. SLOOH.COM is an online network of observatories with its flagship observatory located at the Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands and two more online soon in Chile and Australia.
Web site: http://slooh.com
Topic(s): Science
Tags: slooh astronomy observatory telescope space
About the Maker(s)
Tierney O’Dea Tierney O'Dea is a science writer and Chief Operating Officer for Slooh.com, a live astronomy website. From 1998 to 2003, she was a researcher and associate producer for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw where she often covered science & NASA events. She was also a docent at the Hayden Planetarium and a writer for Space.com. Fed-up with city light pollution, she joined Slooh as a beta tester in 2004. Now based in Austin, she runs Slooh.com and and looks for supernovas and comets with the online community and live remote control telescopes.
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