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The following is a message from the Galaxy Zoo team:
Hi,
Thank you for taking part in one of the citizen science projects in the Zooniverse, whether it’s Galaxy Zoo, Moon Zoo or Solar Stormwatch, or all three. We’ve had a busy few weeks, launching a new project (Old Weather) and updated most of our existing ones. In case you missed it, here’s what’s been going on:
Old Weather: Our latest project at http://www.oldweather.org takes you back into the past – we have World War I ship’s logs from 280 Royal Naval vessels for you to explore. Whether in battle, in port or on patrol, the ship’s crew recorded information about the weather. That information is critical for climate scientists trying to improve their computer models. As well as rescuing those weather observations, we’re also asking you to record the personal and political events aboard the ship. It’s great fun and highly addictive: you have been warned
!Moon Zoo: Following the overwhelming success of our challenge to you all during International Observe the Moon Night, we’ve made the Moonometer (http://www.moonzoo.org/moonometer) a permanent feature of the site, so that you can keep track of our collective progress, whether you count the number of square miles, the area of Wales or even the number of Disneylands (currently over 219,000). We’ve also improved My Moon Zoo so that you can explore interesting areas of the Moon once you, or others have found them.
Galaxy Zoo: If you haven’t explored the weird and wonderful mix of galaxies that haunt the distant Universe, please get stuck in at http://www.galaxyzoo.org. We’re nearly ready to add a new batch of Hubble images to the mix, but we can only do that once you’ve got through our existing set. Further confirmation that each and every click counts arrived last week, too, as the first paper to use data from Zoo 2 was officially accepted by the Zoo. Congratulations, everybod.
!Supernovae: The first paper from the supernova team has been submitted too, and it shows that you really can make a difference by discovering exploding stars. Little and often is the trick here, but you can sign up for daily emails that tell you precisely when we need your help at : http://supernova.galaxyzoo.org/notifications
Yours Scientifically, The Zooniverse Team
PS – We’re pleased to say that we’ve been nominated for a physics.org Web Award (http://www.physics.org/toplistdetail.asp?id=12). If you’d like to vote for us, or anyone else, then visit http://www.physics.org/featuredetail.asp?id=55 for all the details.
