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• World-class abilities
• European-class abilities
• HEIC Products
• Scientist's guidelines
• Our group
• Projects
• Article about HEIC
• Students, visitors etc.

World-class abilities

One of our artist's impressions.

A 3d model of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

• Home of the Hubblecast, the most popular video podcasts about the Hubble Space Telescope and the science related to it
• Home of the International Year of Astronomy secretariat
• Home of the International Astronomical Union press office
• Producer for and coordinator of ESA's Hubble 15th Anniversary Campaign (incl. the record-breaking DVD movie, the Hubble Day events and the book)
• Home of the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator (more than 75,000 downloads as in September 2007)
• Our artist’s impressions
• Our 3D model quality
• Initiators of the IAU Working Group Communicating Astronomy (with Dennis Crabtree and Ian Robson)
• Our pipeline optimisation/Return on Investment:
  • Our reaction speed to requests
  • The way we use our manpower strategically
  • Our efficiency, for instance
    • The amount of time we use on producing a broadcast video second, or
    • The time it takes us to make a finished PR image out of raw data from the telescope.
• Our proactive distribution, for instance:
  • Our web system in general - complete, searchable, appealing …
  • The way we distribute broadcast quality video material on the web.
• Home of VAMP, the Virtual Astronomy Multimedia Project, and the Astronomy Visualization Metadata Standard for the Virtual Observatory incl. the Astronomical Taxonomy for EPO use (w. R. Hurt, submitted to IVOA). Also related: Astronomical Outreach Imagery Metadata Tags for the Virtual Observatory
• Home of "The Hands-On Guide for Science Communicators" (monograph, 300 pages, Springer NYC, 2007)