The third Pale Blue Dot meeting is underway at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.
It is fun.
If you're in the Chicago area you should come down for the public event, tuesday 19 Sep, 7-9 pm at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance.
Some distinguished astronomer will give you a song and dance...
So what do we know:
the first elements of the Allen Array are up and running, Jill Tarter showed a very cute movie of the synchronised pointing of the currently installed elements. Someone YouTube it will you!
Here is the movie - very cute - almost eerie
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