Galilean Nights was a global star party event from Oct 22-24, 2009. Educators, amateur astronomers, science museums, scientists and many others took telescopes out into the open to show off the king of our fall skies – Jupiter!  In Second Life, we joined in the global celebration by having special limited time exhibits on Jupiter. During this time, we had roughly 165 unique visitors who enjoyed learning about Jupiter, playing with a simulation of Jupiter and the Galilean Moons, watched the Let There Be Night planetarium show on Galileo, and viewed hourly updates of the view of Jupiter through our IYA2009 telescopes!

On March 4, 2010 our project made it into the Event Awards as “Highly Commended”  in the Most Innovative Event category!  Congratulations to us! And a large thank you to those that donated exhibits (Rob Knop a.k.a. Prospero Frobozz in SL and also Inthe Telling and the Let There Be Night project!).

See the IYA2009 press release here: http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/829/

See our event summary page here: http://secondastronomy.org/events/galilean-nights

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