Dear Fellow Communicators,

Preparations for ESO’s Open House Day 2013 are in full swing. The event takes place on 19 October at our Headquarters in Garching near Munich, Germany. If you are in the area, come and pay us a visit. This time you will have the opportunity to see ESO's new Headquarters extension for the first time (the last concrete is being poured as we speak), participate in a live connection to ALMA, the largest astronomical project in existence, take a trip to Chile through our virtual tours, take a moment to relax with our Chile Chill video podcasts, watch documentaries and planetarium shows and much more. You can read everything about the event in the Announcement section of this newsletter.

One of the consequences of living in today’s information-saturated society is the need for good  information management. With more than 8000 hand-picked images and 2000 videos in our ESO media archives alone, we admit that it can be hard to get an overview of what is on offer. I have prepared a few interesting searches with our  advanced search that offer superb time-lapses, large images, or high-res fisheye images, videos and panoramas for planetarium use (bookmark them as they update dynamically):

• Time-lapse videos
• Panorama images
• Large images above 70 million pixels
• Some cool historical images including from the ESO site-testing days in Africa (flip that pancake Bert!)
• Fish-eye images and videos for planetariums
• Our Awesome Universe exhibition images (translated to  many languages)

Also this month, we have a new iTunes logo for our ESOcast. Check it out and tell us what you think!

We would also like to congratulate Stuart Clark, winner of the European Astronomy Journalism Prize 2013, as well as all the journalists participating! You can find out more in the announcement here below.

Finally, be sure to check our events list to the right of the newsletter as we have many exciting activities coming, such as:

• CAP2013 meeting in Warsaw
• The very first ESO astronomy camp for children

Let’s reach new heights in astronomy together,

Lars Lindberg Christensen (lars@eso.org)
Head, ESO education and Public Outreach Department (ePOD)

  ESO Announcements

	2013 European Astronomy Journalism Prize Winner Announced 12 September 2013: The winner of the 2013 European Astronomy Journalism Prize is author and astronomy journalist Stuart Clark for his piece When the dust unsettles. The article was featured in ...
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	Step Inside the Headquarters of the Most Productive Ground-based Observatory in the World! — The 2013 Open House Day at the Garching research campus 9 September 2013: On Saturday 19 October, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) will open its doors to the public between 11:00 and 19:00 CEST. The event is part of the Open House Day ...
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	Celebrating 50 years in Chile — ESO & Chile brochure published 26 August 2013: The new brochure ESO & Chile celebrates the 50 year anniversary of ESO in Chile. It describes an important relationship between ESO — the foremost intergovernmental astro­nomy organisation in Europe ...
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	ALMA Filmed with Hexacopter — Hexacopter captures the first remote controlled aerial video footage of ALMA 23 August 2013: High on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes these 58 antennae — eventually to become 66 — make up the largest astronomical project in existence, the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre array ...
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  ESOcasts

ESOcast 60: A Polarised View of Exoplanets 4 September 2013: Astronomers know that planets around other stars beyond the Solar System are common. But these planets are very hard to see and even harder to study. Fortunately, there is a ...