Producers of the new PBS documentary The Journey to Palomar
and the NASA Ames Research Center
present
A LIVE INTERACTIVE NASA WEBCAST FOR STUDENTS
“George Ellery Hale’s Legacy and the
Future of Giant American Telescopes”
When: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - 11:00 AM (PACIFIC TIME)
(2:00 pm Eastern; 8:00 am Hawaii)
Where: On the Internet
www.journeytopalomar.org
(Click on NASA Webcast) or quest.nasa.gov/lunar/palomar/
STUDENTS will meet producers Todd and Robin Mason of the award-
winning new primetime PBS documentary The Journey to Palomar and
learn about the super-human efforts of American astronomer George
Ellery Hale and his colleagues to build the biggest telescopes of the
20th century, predecessors of the new mega telescopes being built
today for the 21st century.
THEN, students will have an exclusive, once-in-a-lifetime chance to
explore the universe, LIVE with America’s top astronomers who are
building this next generation of giant American Telescopes. They’ll
also have a look at NASA's LCROSS mission to search for water on the
Moon, live from NASA's launch of the final Hubble repair mission at
the Kennedy Space Center. Students from Maine to Hawaii can submit
questions directly to the experts via the internet.
SPECIAL GUESTS include Nobel Laureate Dr. John Mather, Science
Director for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope; Carnegie
Observatories Director, Dr. Wendy Freedman on the Giant Magellan
Telescope; and Caltech Optical Observatories Director Emeritus, Dr.
Richard Ellis on the Thirty-Meter Telescope. Moderator is Dr.
Derrick Pitts, television personality and Chief Astronomer at the
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia.
TO PARTICIPATE, go to: www.journeytopalomar.org
THE JOURNEY TO PALOMAR is the story of American astronomer George
Ellery Hale’s dramatic public and private struggle to build the four
largest telescopes in the world, which set the stage for astronomy
and space exploration throughout the 20th century, revealing the
greatest discoveries since Galileo and Copernicus. The documentary
premieres on nationwide on PBS November 10th. (Check your local
listings for the schedule in your area.) A comprehensive Teacher
Guide (free download) accompanies the documentary at pbs.org in
November.