Live 24-hour webcast from astronomical observatoriesOrganised by ESO, the European Southern Observatory, from its HQ in Garching, GermanyDate: 3 April 2009, 09:00 UT (Universal Time/GMT) to
4 April 2009, 09:00 UT (Universal Time/GMT).
Duration: 24 hours
"Around the World in 80 Telescopes" is a unique live 24-hour webcast, following night and day around the globe to some of the most advanced observatories both on and off the planet. You can watch it right here on the 100HA website, and on the
100HA channel on Ustream.tv.
Find out what's happening at a research observatory in your country, or on the other side of the planet, and discover what astronomers are doing right now! Who is observing? What are they researching? What do they hope to discover?
You'll see a snapshot of life at many different observatories where astronomers will present exclusive images and talk about their work. Some will be observing distant galaxies, searching for extrasolar planets around other stars or studying our own Solar System. Some will be studying the Universe in visible light, others in radio waves or other wavelengths. Some may be working at solar observatories or with telescopes out in space. All of them will have a different story to tell.
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80t-msg@eso.org and we'll read out as many as we can during the webcast. You can also contact some observatories directly: check out their individual pages from the schedule below.
Webcast schedule"Around the World in 80 Telescopes" begins with the telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, before moving westwards around the planet. As this is a live event, the schedule may be subject to change in the event of technical problems.
All dates and times are in Universal Time (UT), or "GMT". Click on the times below to see the equivalent local time in cities around the world.
| Date / Time (UT) | Observatory |
| 3 April 09:00 | Gemini North telescope (Hawaii, USA) |
| 3 April 09:20 | Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) (Hawaii, USA) |
| 3 April 09:40 | United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) (Hawaii, USA) |
| 3 April 10:00 | W. M. Keck Observatory (Hawaii, USA) |
| 3 April 10:20 | James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) (Hawaii, USA) |
| 3 April 10:40 | Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) (Hawaii, USA) |
| 3 April 11:00 | Submillimeter Array (Hawaii, USA) |
| 3 April 11:20 | Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) (Hawaii, USA) |
| 3 April 11:40 | MOA Telescope (New Zealand) |
| 3 April 12:00 | Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) (Australia) |
| 3 April 12:20 | GEO600, the German-British Gravitational Wave Detector (Germany) |
| 3 April 12:40 | NAOJ Nobeyama, Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) (Japan) |
| 3 April 13:00 | Gunma Astronomical Observatory (Japan) |
| 3 April 13:20 | Okayama Astrophysical Observatory (OAO) (Japan) |
| 3 April 13:40 | Themis (Observatorio del Teide) (Spain) |
| 3 April 13:50 | SolarLab (Observatorio del Teide) (Spain) |
| 3 April 14:00 | Quijote (Observatorio del Teide) (Spain) |
| 3 April 14:10 | ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory & INTEGRAL gamma-ray observatory(Space/Spain) |
| 3 April 14:40 | Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) (Chile) |
| 3 April 15:00 | Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) (Chile) |
| 3 April 15:20 | European VLBI Network (EVN) (Netherlands) |
| 3 April 15:40 | ASTRON Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) (Netherlands) |
| 3 April 16:00 | LOFAR, the LOW Frequency Array of ASTRON (Netherlands) |
| 3 April 16:20 | Virgo Gravitational Wave Detector at the European Gravitational Observatory (Italy) |
| 3 April 16:40 | Plateau de Bure Interferometer (France) |
| 3 April 17:00 | The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory (United Kingdom) |
| 3 April 17:20 | The Hubble Space Telescope (Space/USA) |
| 3 April 17:40 | The Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer (Space/USA) |
| 3 April 18:00 | The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Space/USA) |
| 3 April 18:20 | The Very Large Array (VLA) (USA) |
| 3 April 18:40 | Himalayan Chandra Telescope (Indian Astronomical Observatory, Hanle) (India) |
| 3 April 19:00 | The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (USA) |
| 3 April 19:20 | SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) and TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer) (Space/USA) |
| 3 April 19:40 | STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) (Space/USA) |
| 3 April 20:00 | Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) (USA) |
| 3 April 20:20 | Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) (Space/USA) |
| 3 April 20:40 | NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (Space/USA) |
| 3 April 21:00 | The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) (South Africa) |
| 3 April 21:20 | NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (Space/USA) |
| 3 April 21:40 | Observatoire de Haute-Provence (France) |
| 3 April 22:00 | Calar Alto Observatory (Centro Astronómico Hispano Alemán) (Spain) |
| 3 April 22:20 | IRAM 30-metre telescope (Spain) |
| 3 April 22:40 | Hinode (SOLAR-B) (Space/Japan) |
| 3 April 23:00 | Gran Telescopio Canarias (Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma)(Spain) |
| 3 April 23:10 | William Herschel Telescope (Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma)(Spain) |
| 3 April 23:20 | Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma)(Spain) |
| 3 April 23:30 | Swedish Solar Telescope (Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma)(Spain) |
| 3 April 23:40 | Allen Telescope Array (USA) |
| 4 April 00:00 | Telescope Bernard Lyot (TBL), Pic du Midi (France) |
| 4 April 00:20 | CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility - Parkes Observatory (Australia) |
| 4 April 00:40 | Space Sciences Laboratory - UC Berkeley (Space/USA) |
| 4 April 01:00 | University of Tasmania Hobart 26m Radiotelescope (Mount Pleasant Observatory)(Australia) |
| 4 April 01:20 | Australian International Gravitational Wave Observatory (AIGO) Research Facility(Australia) |
| 4 April 01:40 | Shanghai Radio Telescope (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) (China) |
| 4 April 02:00 | Arecibo Observatory (Puerto Rico) |
| 4 April 02:20 | ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) (Chile) |
| 4 April 02:40 | Concordia station, Dome C, Antarctica (Antarctica) |
| 4 April 03:00 | Las Campanas Observatory (Chile) |
| 4 April 03:20 | ESO La Silla Observatory (Chile) |
| 4 April 03:40 | Rothney Astrophysical Observatory (Canada) |
| 4 April 04:00 | Gemini South telescope (Chile) |
| 4 April 04:20 | NOAO South - Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (Chile) |
| 4 April 04:40 | Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (Australia) |
| 4 April 05:00 | McDonald Observatory (Hobby-Eberly Telescope) (USA) |
| 4 April 05:20 | Apache Point Observatory ARC 3.5-meter Telescope (USA) |
| 4 April 05:40 | Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (USA) |
| 4 April 06:00 | TAMA 300 (Japan) |
| 4 April 06:20 | Arizona Radio Observatory's Submillimeter Telescope, Mt Graham (USA) |
| 4 April 06:35 | Vatican Telescope, Mt Graham (USA) |
| 4 April 06:50 | MMT Observatory (USA) |
| 4 April 07:05 | Kepler Mission (Space/USA) |
| 4 April 07:25 | The 10-meter South Pole Telescope/IceCube Neutrino Telescope (South Pole, Antarctica) |
| 4 April 07:40 | Kitt Peak National Observatory (USA) |
| 4 April 08:00 | Lick Observatory (USA) |
| 4 April 08:20 | CHARA (Mount Wilson) (USA) |
| 4 April 08:40 | Palomar Observatory / Hale Telescope (USA) |
Douglas Pierce-Price,
dpiercep@eso.orgDisclaimer: All opinions expressed in "Around the World in 80 Telescopes" are those of the speakers and/or authors, and do not necessarily reflect the position of ESO, the International Year of Astronomy 2009, International Astronomical Union, UNESCO or other organisations involved in this project.
