![]() Slooh members watched the live stream in amazement as they identified the primordial space rock whizzing across the skies - and they were among only a handful of people to do so that night. Greiner immediately scheduled Slooh's telescopes at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands to capture the fast-moving asteroid “2008 TC3” as it approached Earth. Astronomers had calculated that it would impact Earth! On the night of October October 6th, 2008, Slooh Member Tavi Greiner heard about an asteroid that had only been discovered earlier that day. With widespread global media coverage, Slooh's decade-long campaign to raise the awareness of the threat from Near-Earth Asteroids is well known. Slooh's Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking Program: Further expansion of Slooh's observatory network is underway to extend the hours of operations and sky coverage. This not only opened up southern hemisphere skies, with its myriad of deep sky objects, but more importantly, allowed those members tracking asteroids and comets, and those pursuing discovery programs, to access regions of the southern skies poorly served with telescopes. Slooh expanded its telescope network in 2009 when it launched its southern hemisphere observatory at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile facility near Santiago. Art astronomy where members collect the raw astronomical FITS data and process their own color images. ![]() Supernovae, novae, comet and asteroid discovery programs.Monitoring the morphology of comets including participation in the largest collaborations projects between professional and amateur astronomers.Tracking Near-Earth Asteroids, making astrometric measurements of their positions to submit to the Minor Planet Center (to determine accurate orbits).Introduction: Since Slooh launched in 2003, with four telescopes at the world-class astronomical site at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, Slooh members have followed a number of astronomical pursuits: ![]()
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