“We’re at the dawn of a new era, in which computation between humans and machines is being mixed.”
Introducing astrotags
The Royal Observatory in Greenwish (which we had the pleasure of being invited to for the Citizen Science Alliance workshop last month), has put together a gorgeous animated video introducing astrotags:
“Astrotags are a new way to label your astronomy photos with their celestial subject and its location. This short film, made by Jim Le Fevre and Mike Paterson for the Royal Observatory’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition, shows you how. So have a watch, then astrotag your pictures at the Astronomy Photographer of the Year group on Flickr. If everyone joins in we can make a beautiful and accurate map of the night sky… so pass the word on.”
To learn more about the technology and data driving astrotagging, read up on this great interview of Astrometry.net by Flickr about how anyone can make contributions to astronomical science.
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