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VT-2004 Website – Central Display
Richard West (ESO)
Brandys nad Labem – Czech Republic
May 8, 2004
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Venus Transit Coming! Extremely rare event on June 8, 2004 Visible in Europe, Africa, Asia VT-2004 programme for the wide public Direct involvement of schools Major media event intended Introduction to exoplanet research Historical aspects Determination of Sun-Earth distance First step on astronomical distance scale Perform an observation and participate Webcast and on-line information
Website plays a central role for communication!
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Venus Transit - 2004
Visit:
www.vt-2004.org
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VT-2004 website
Statistics for four months in early 2004
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April 2004
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Acquisition of Images
• “Primary Partners” – direct links
• Listed websites with images – download
• 14-inch Celestron at ESO HQ via internal net
• Image Editors
• Comments added
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Dissemination of Central Display
• AKAMAI contract
• Several hundred mirror sites all over the world (up to 15,000)
• Starting on June 6 for three days
• Automatic updates
• Every 30 seconds
• [Links to National Node websites]