Call for participation Live Global Stargazing BBC TV show

Call for Participation - LIVE BBC TV Event
Here is the website for the programmes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wnvpf


The show is already gathering images on Flickr for possible inclusion in the live broadcast
Here - www.flickr.com/groups/1574153@N21/


Got this a few minutes ago re January Global Stargazing Live BBC TV show and AWB participation.

Dear AWB members

On January 3rd, 4th and 5th the BBC will be presenting three special nights of LIVE astronomy.

As Astronomers Without Borders we have been contacted by the BBC to organise live events which the public can participate in.

I am sending a request for AWB members to participate in this event who can offer live webcasts, robotic telescope observing, broadcasting, videocasts, etc which can be offered on the evenings of 3rd, 4th and 5th of January (UK GMT)

The live TV programme will coincide with the alignment of Jupiter and Uranus, a partial solar eclipse and the Quadrantid meteor shower where the public will be inspired by the work of astronomers through a Global TV linkup !

The deadline is 3rd December to propose ideas for a live event so if you wish to participate and can offer something during one all of the nights of 3rd/4th and 5th .............

Well now a bit of a task I would say to offer something LIVE from IFAS clubs but maybe not impossible ?
Participation if only via the flickr groups is participation

Eclipse details en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_January_4,_2011

Any ideas ?? brrrrrrrrrrrr

Deirdre Kelleghan
Vice Chair IFAS
AWB Coordinator

Sounds great. With the advent of mobile broadband this could be within reach of clubs that would otherwise be stranded when 'out in the field'. A laptop with a webcam, Skype installed, and some sort of imagination, this could be a really cool way to promote a club. There may even be a way of using something akin to Shoutcast where you can tap in to a server with a live stream and (via a web link) surfers can access your online stream anywhere in the world.

Seanie.

Hi Seanie

During the recent anti bailout march in Dublin , a guy was filming it , and broadcasting it on UPSTREAM TV live, I saw all this via Twitter. I do not have one of these phones (YET) or know how to do this but perhaps some of you do.???

If you do perhaps you could let us know how to go about this so we may be able to set something up in our own areas ? If the hyper link too whatever is being filmed is posted with the hatch tag #BBCstargazing then it becomes part of the programme Twitter stream.

Thanks

Deirdre Kelleghan
Vice Chair IFAS

It sounds like the same principal, there are many versions, a lot of them free, that allow you to stream live content (in almost real time after some compression) that could then be viewed on a smartphone anywhere in the world. I only mention Shoutast as an example of one I used (though primarily for live online audio broadcasting, not video).

Seanie.