400 Years of the Telescope was an interactive, multimedia project enabling the public to participate in real and virtual telescope experiences, understand the far reaching advances that the telescope has made possible, and discover how technology, science, and society are interconnected. Partners included PBS (Southern Oregon Public Television - SOPTV), Interstellar Studios, Leading astronomers and science writers, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), Carnegie Science Center (Buhl Planetarium) and 'Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai'i. A two-hour, high-definition documentary, aired twice on PBS in 2009, kicking off the International Year of Astronomy.
Project Products
Funders
NSF
Funding Program:
ISE/AISL
Award Number:
0813414
Funding Amount:
3090060
TEAM MEMBERS
Kris Koenig
Principal Investigator
Interstellar Studios
James Manning
Co-Principal Investigator
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Rose Tseng
Co-Principal Investigator
University of Hawaii at Hilo
Mark Stanislawski
Co-Principal Investigator
PBS
Shawn Laatsch
Co-Principal Investigator
University of Hawaii at Hilo
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