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Ham Radio Earth-Moon-Earth Art Event on Google+ Hangout</h1><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong>OPTICKS</strong><span> </span>is a live radio transmission performance between the Earth and the Moon during which images are sent to the Moon and back as radio signals using the MMSSTV Slow San TV software developed by Makoto Mori JE3HHT<span> </span><br>
<br>A live Google+ hangout is taking place on May 1 at 2000 UT. A Reddit AMA will precede the Hangout at 1500 UT.<br><br>The project has been realized by visual artist<span> </span><a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.danieladepaulis.com/" target="_blank">Daniela de Paulis</a><span> </span>(IT/NL) in collaboration with Jan van Muijlwijk PA3FXB and the CAMRAS radio amateurs association based at Dwingeloo radio telescope (NL).<span> </span><br>
Each live performance is made possible thanks to the collaboration of radio amateurs Howard Ling G4CCH (UK), Bruce Halász PY2BS (Brazil) and Daniel Gautschi HB9CRQ (CH).<br><br>The live hangout will feature a “touch” and bounce of Humans in Space Youth Art Competition artwork off the Moon using<span> </span><a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.opticks.info/" target="_blank">OPTICKS</a><span> </span>radio wave technology. Guests and remote participants will discuss the significance of the artwork and the performance and explore the impact of past, present, and future human presence on the Moon.<br>
<br>Guests<br>- Andrew Chaikin is the author of Man on the Moon and From Earth to the Moon.<br>- Wendell Mendell is a retired NASA lunar and planetary exploration scientist.<br>- Sarah Nobel is a current NASA lunar scientist and artist.<br>
- Frank Shiner is a winner of both the 2010 and 2012 Humans in Space Youth Art Competitions.<br>- Jan van Muijlwijk PA3FXB, OPTICKS collaborator, radio operator, CAMRAS/Dwingeloo radio telescope.<br>- Daniela De Paulis is the visual artist and researcher who developed the OPTICKS live performance technology in collaboration with the Dwingeloo radio telescope.<br>
- Jancy McPhee is the director of the Humans in Space Art Program, which includes the Youth Art Competition Project in its portfolio.<br><br>Learn more at<span> </span><a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.opticks.info/" target="_blank">http://www.Opticks.info/</a><span> </span>and<a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.humansinspaceart.org/" target="_blank">http://www.HumansInSpaceArt.org/</a><br>
<br>OPTICKS employes a technology used by radio amateurs called Earth-Moon-Earth or Moonbounce in which the Moon is used as a natural reflector for radio signals.<br><br>In October 2009 Daniela de Paulis and Jan van Muijlwijk PA3FXB started pioneering a new application of Moonbounce technology, called Visual Moonbounce, which allows sending images to the Moon and back, combining Radio Astronomy with amateur radio technologies.<br>
<br>The title OPTICKS is inspired by Newton’s discoveries of the light spectrum, reflection and refraction. Similarly, the colours composing an image – converted into radio signals – are bounced off the Moon (reflected and refracted) by its surface during each live performance.<br>
<br>The performance is introduced by live sounds of amateurs radio signals captured by the Dwingeloo antenna tracking the moon.<br><br>Watch a recording of the performance for the radio programme RaiTunes<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/s92lLLgFuOs?rel=0">www.youtube.com/embed/s92lLLgFuOs?rel=0</a><br>
<br>You can support the project by purchasing a limited edition t-shirt from this link<span> </span><br><a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="https://fabrily.com/EarthAndMoon2" target="_blank">https://fabrily.com/EarthAndMoon2</a><br>
<br>Google+ Hangout GAM AstroArt: Touching the Moon with Art & Footsteps<span> </span><br><a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="https://plus.google.com/events/ckm4364t5f7fcg0m42rgb7br2lc" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/events/ckm4364t5f7fcg0m42rgb7br2lc</a><br>
<br>Daniela de Paulis<span> </span><a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.danieladepaulis.com/" target="_blank">http://www.danieladepaulis.com/</a><br><br>Story source<span> </span><a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.opticks.info/" target="_blank">http://www.opticks.info/</a></p>
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