Astronomers, Astrophysicists and Astronauts visited various SpaceApp locations. AND, a there is a #launchjon campaign.
“Get this bracelet to light up by trending Jon Spooner on twitter! Go on! It’s for the global #spaceapps challenge”
“Our astronomer is overly excited and wants to help out on any team that is working on Tour of the solar system too!” Dr. Syeda Kareema Ghouse joined the Miami team to discuss mobile + astronomy.
They also brained on Visualize the “All-too-Common Astronomy/Solar System Misconceptions”. What a seriously fun project to keep doing with people!
As for astronauts: Tokyo had @astro_ron recorded a SpaceApps Google Hangout held with San Francisco, Jakarta, Tokyo, and Melbourne.
Dr. Prasenjit Saha, professor of astrophysics at the University of Zürich shared his project in Lausanne. It is good to know that brainac Astrophysicists say:
“We observe these two firework thingys.” He is working on an open development citizen science project. (The talk starts 2 minutes into the ustream recording.)
Nairobi and San Francisco are social butterfly hub cities. They held Google Chats to connect with other cities. Well done, Willow and Simeon. Global connections are true magic. Every global hackathon it gets easier to share between cities. While co-hacking can be hard, the human connection that we are all in this together across timezones is an amazing starting point. As Sara Farmer mentioned, the key is to have all the cities connected via Skype and Google docs so that we can coordinate with the global dispatch team.
Miami and Jakarta connecting. (Photo via Alison Hornery)
Global Tour
(picture by Fumi from Tokyo)
SpaceApps highlight reel from some of the cities:
San Francisco: (picture courtesy of Elizabeth Sabet)
Canberra: (Picture courtesy Lyle Roberts)
Melbourne: (Picture via @auspaceapps) 
Nairobi: (picture courtesy of ihub)
Jakarta (Picture by Ali Llewellyn)
Oxford
Update from the UK: “Some worked all night and are Red Bulling their way back to consciousness!” #spaceapps
More Photos:
International Space Apps and #spaceapps.
‘Join the army,’ they said!
‘See the world,’ they said!
I’d rather be sailing the solar system.
Sometimes your globe is tiny and there is a hacker next door that you did not know was connected to your community. @mattmattmatt was on the hunt to get Horizon data to work all day yesterday. A few of the global team members connected him via a mash of IRC, skype, email and twitter. We connect with people on the topic and don’t always get into the gritty of where they may be located. Oddly enough, Matt Mihok is in Toronto. SpaceApps hackers unite! (the project)
Hack of a hack
[05:33] HeatherL: Juub – I like to call it it the hack of the hack[05:33] HeatherL: the first hack is that you find out you can and should
[05:34] HeatherL: the second hack is that you learn how to collaborate outside institutions, corporations and, hopefully, your usual silos of knowledge
[05:34] HeatherL: the third hack is that you create something, do something
(early morning IRC chat with Juub)
Getting people involved in global hackathons is an evolution. I think that the individual is the first and most important hack. As we think about the Open Government Partnership, we need all citizens engaged. This means more teaching that we can and should. Here’s to that amazing exploration.
I leave you with ISS DUCK (via @ileddigital:
Heather
Posts in the series:
astronomers-astrophysicists-and-astronauts
Dispatch: International Space Apps Challenge Part 2
Dispatches From International Space Apps Challenge Part 1/
