New Year's Eve: Pulsar Countdown

17 November 2008

We are working on a program to mark the beginning of IYA using a pulsar as a clock to count down to the moment of midnight on 31 December.

The pulsar would be observed with the Parkes radio telescope in Australia, and a display of the signal sent to locations in Australia.

We would be able to make the signal available, at standard videoconferencing resolution, to up to 10 other countries: you would simply dial into a mcu unit as if you were running a videoconference.

For further information please contact:

Helen Sim
Public Relations and Media Liaison
CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility (email: Helen.Sim@csiro.au)
and
Anglo-Australian Observatory (email: hsim@aao.gov.au)

Single Point of Contact (SPOC) in Australia for the 2009 International Year of Astronomy

Tel: +61-2-9372-4251
Mob: +61-419-635-905

 

 

 

Organisational Associates:
ESO AAS INSU CAS STRW NOVA STFC SCNAT SPA NRC MEC CNES DLR ESA JAXA NAOJ APL PS ESF ISRO ICRAN NLSI NOT U Cluster NASAEAS ASI NRAO CEA  KASI EAE SPA AUI CROSCI


The International Year of Astronomy 2009 is endorsed by the United Nations and the International Council of Science.