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Astronomy Cast Episode 317

Observatories

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos,

to understand not only what we know but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of University and Whitney is Dr. Pamela Gay,

professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and the director of CosmoQuest.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing Fraser?

Good, so we're recording this and you're in a strange location, where are you?

I am, I am in the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw, Poland.

And I am here along with roughly 200 other people from 40 different nations,

as we discuss ways to more effectively communicate astronomy out to the public.

And everything that we're doing, we are live streaming it out using Google+.

So you can go to my YouTube page, slash star strider on YouTube,

and under the videos get access to everything we've done outside of the planetarium.

I couldn't figure out how live stream planetarium content and make it look good.

So that's the only thing that we're not live streaming.

That's really cool.

Yeah, what how you would do that?

I don't know.

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