A here exists only in relation to a there. If we don't look up, we'll never know what's down.
Paul Auster
Moon Palace
I have been fortunate to work with a wide range of activities centred on communication of astronomy to the public, with some of the best people in the profession.
Here is my own little Top-10 (or so) list of favourite achievements:
- Writing the book The Hands-on Guide for Science Communicators, Springer New York, 2006, ISBN 0387263241
- Writing the book Lysfænomener i Naturen, Høst & Søn, 1998, ISBN 8714294621
- Being Press Officer for International Astronomical Union in a period the IAU became more known than ever before due to the re-classification of dwarf planet Pluto. Read more about the work during this hectic period of the 2006 IAU General Assembly here.
- Directing the movie Eyes on the Skies - 400 Years of Telescopic Discovery
- Receiving the Tycho Brahe Medal in 2005
- Directing the movie Hubble - 15 Years of Discovery
- Writing the book Hubble - 15 Years of Discovery, Springer New York, 2006, ISBN 0387285997 (also in Finnish, German, Portuguese, Chinese)
- Producing the lasershow Ambient LaserTrance in the Dome 1994 together with Morten Rasmussen.
- Writing my Master's Thesis: Compund Redshift Catalogues and their Application to Redshift Distortions of the Two-point Correlation Function. At one point in 1996 I had the largest collection of galaxy redshifts in the world...
- Leading the FITS Liberator project
- Leading the Hubblecast project
- Producing the lasershow Beat the Visions 1993 together with Morten Rasmussen.
- Initiating the Virtual Repository, later VAMP project
- Initiate and manage Tripping on the Final Frontier, event for the 5th anniversary of Tycho Brahe Planetarium
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