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RE: Around the World in 80 Telescopes

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To mark the International Year of Astronomy, ESA is launching a special competition for secondary school students and undergraduates. Participants will use data obtained by the Integral space observatory to investigate objects in one of the most active regions of our Galaxy.
The competition was launched during 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes', a live 24-hour webcast that took place as part of 100 Hours of Astronomy, a cornerstone project for the International Year of Astronomy 2009.

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Aspiring black-hole spotters will get a rare chance to see some of the most sophisticated gravitational wave detectors at work by logging on to a special 24-hour webcast (from April 3rd).
Around the World in 80 Telescopes includes a live fed feed from the GEO 600, the Hanover-based British-German gravitational wave detector project co-founded by the School of Physics and Astronomys Gravitational Physics Group.

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Watch the recorded videos (dates and times are in UT)

03 April 23:40 Allen Telescope Array (USA)
03 April 23:30 Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma) (Spain)
03 April 23:20 Swedish Solar Telescope (Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma) (Spain) (same link as above)
03 April 23:10 William Herschel Telescope (Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma) (Spain) (same link as above)
03 April 23:00 Gran Telescopio Canarias (Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma) (Spain) (same link as above)
03 April 22:40 Hinode (SOLAR-B) (Space)
03 April 22:20 IRAM 30-metre telescope (Spain)
03 April 22:00 Calar Alto Observatory (Centro Astronómico Hispano Alemán) (Spain)
03 April 21:40 Observatoire de Haute-Provence (France)
03 April 21:20 NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (Space)
03 April 21:00 The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) (South Africa)
03 April 20:40 NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (Space)
03 April 20:20 Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) (Space)
03 April 20:00 Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) (USA)
03 April 19:40 STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) (Space)
03 April 19:20 SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) and TRACE (Transition Region and Coronal Explorer) (Space)
03 April 19:00 The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (USA)
03 April 18:40 Himalayan Chandra Telescope (Indian Astronomical Observatory, Hanle) (India)
03 April 18:20 The Very Large Array (VLA) (USA)
03 April 18:00 The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Space)
03 April 17:40 The Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer (Space)
03 April 17:20 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (Space)
03 April 17:00 The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory (United Kingdom)
03 April 16:40 Plateau de Bure Interferometer (France)
03 April 16:20 Virgo Gravitational Wave Detector at the European Gravitational Observatory (Italy)
03 April 16:00 LOFAR, the LOW Frequency Array of ASTRON (Netherlands)
03 April 15:40 ASTRON Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) (Netherlands)
03 April 15:20 European VLBI Network (EVN) (Netherlands)
03 April 15:00 Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) (Chile)
03 April 14:40 Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) (Chile)
03 April 14:10 ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory & INTEGRAL gamma-ray observatory (Space) [RECORDING FAILED - WILL BE ADDED WITHIN DAYS]
03 April 14:00 Quijote (Observatorio del Teide) (Spain)
03 April 13:50 SolarLab (Observatorio del Teide) (Spain) (same link as above)
03 April 13:40 Themis (Observatorio del Teide) (Spain) (same link as above)
03 April 13:20 Okayama Astrophysical Observatory (OAO) (Japan)
03 April 13:00 Gunma Astronomical Observatory (Japan)
03 April 12:40 NAOJ Nobeyama, Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) (Japan) [part1] [part2]
03 April 12:20 GEO600, the German-British Gravitational Wave Detector (Germany)
03 April 12:00 Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) (Australia)
03 April 11:40 MOA Telescope (New Zealand) [part1] [part2]
03 April 11:20 Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO) (Hawaii, USA)
03 April 11:00 Submillimeter Array (Hawaii, USA)
03 April 10:40 Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) (Hawaii, USA)
03 April 10:20 James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) (Hawaii, USA)
03 April 10:00 W. M. Keck Observatory (Hawaii, USA)
03 April 09:40 United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) (Hawaii, USA)
03 April 09:20 Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) (Hawaii, USA)
03 April 09:00 Gemini North telescope (Hawaii, USA)

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A collection of NASA missions will be involved in a live event Friday, April 3, that will allow the public to get an inside look at how these missions are run. "Around the World in 80 Telescopes" is a 24-hour webcast that is part of the "100 Hours of Astronomy" event for the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
During the webcast, viewers will be able to visit some of the most advanced telescopes on and off the planet. For NASA's space-based missions, the webcast will be broadcast from control centres throughout the United States.

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