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What we lose in not being in physical space with material objects, we gain in being able to consider different collections and places #ObsNet1
Thanks to Louise Devoy, Ileana Chinnici and Pedro Raposo for sharing some ‘telling’ instruments and observatory equipment with us, revealing of personal, local, international and imperial connections #ObsNet1
Susana Biro is introducing us to her work with Cristina Siqueiros on a US-Mexico collaboration between two Schmidt photographic telescopes - a project prompted by their library finding some plates and wondering if they’d be interested. They were! #ObsNet1
Next we turn to attempts to automate time determination at Neuchâtel Observatory, with Julien Gressot. The key instrument is the PZT (photographic zenith tube) #ObsNet1
First paper this afternoon is Michael Kershaw on the change in longitude determination at observatories from telegraph to wireless networks. Increased potential for global connection - but also need for standardisation & top-down control #ObsNet1
The final sessions of our workshop are this afternoon, including case studies on time determination (telegraph, wireless and automated systems), on the collaborations created by two Schmidt telescopes in Mexico and the US, and based around surviving material culture #ObsNet1
Second session today is on electronic imaging, with David DeVorkin and @25166Thompson from Smithsonian's Air & Space Museum, Robert Smith from Alberta & @ESkulberg from Amsterdam - taking us from the arrival of electronic detectors to television and then digital imaging #ObsNet1
"I would love to hear from everyone about water at their observatories." - If you have any insights on how water was used in the workflow of observatories, here's your chance to share it with Omar! #ObsNet1
Sadly two days in a row we have started our workshop with remembrance of hugely significant figures in the field - we have lost both Paolo Brenni, historian of scientific instruments, and Michael Hoskin, historian of astronomy #ObsNet1
The second day of the #ObsNet1 workshop is about to kick-off and today's line-up is looking stellar!
No better way to start the second day of our workshop than with a panel on astrophotography! Omar Nasim, Kelley Wilder, and @ChaokangTai will provide the latest findings from their project (https://t.co/AvNJtqAJn8), with commentary from Charlotte Bigg #ObsNet1
No better way to start the second day of our workshop than with a panel on astrophotography! Omar Nasim, Kelley Wilder, and @ChaokangTai will provide the latest findings from their project (https://t.co/AvNJtqAJn8), with commentary from Charlotte Bigg #ObsNet1
We are delighted that being online allowed us to welcome people from, among other places, UK, Brussels, Frankfurt, Calcutta, Cape Town, San Diego, Gothenburg, Santiago, Mexico City, Georgia, Chicago, Oslo, Paris, Copenhagen and a train somewhere in Germany! #ObsNet1
Too busy listening/ chairing to tweet today! Thanks to all participants for helping set up such a fruitful set of themes and questions, layering scientific networks with institutional, diplomatic, communication and local ones, that appear, change and disappear over time #ObsNet1
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