I'm about to explode!!! I have such exciting news to share with you all.
(I'm sorry, but Face Book haters are going to hate this.
)
On Friday my FB buddy Bill Buckingham contacted me re. an interesting proposition.
Saturday morning I received the official email.
Here is an excerpt.
"Hello Jeanette,
You and I are Facebook friends and I am writing to ask if you would have any interest in having one or more of your astrophotos included in a new exhibit I am developing at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. One my new exhibit clusters focuses on the James Webb Space Telescope, a giant infrared space telescope to be launched in 2018 and being managed here at Goddard.
I want to provide our visitors with view in the visible and views in the infrared. I have already converted a large wall of windows to very large views of the LMC and the Centaurus-Crux region of the southern (your) sky by printing the images on translucent vinyl and attaching them to the glass. These images were obtained with the Spitzer space telescope and the ESA Herschel Observatory.
While there are visible light views of these areas on the web that I could grab, I would rather have images from someone I know and whose story I could feature, perhaps as small exhibit on avocations and hobbies in astronomy. The signage I would like to create would be located near each of these giant images and show the visible light views of the same region, and explain what we see in visible and what we see or don’t see in the infrared. I would identify you as the photographer, your location, your equipment, and a few lines on how you got interested in this pursuit. Would this be agreeable to you? (If you are interested in participating, I may also need visible light views of other southern sky objects but we can talk more later.) "
Here is the work that has been done so far on the refurbishment.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/...ome/index.html
Bill also designed the Visitors Centre at Tidbinbilla, which made my visit there last year extra interesting.
http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/Pages/visitorcentre.html
In more news, another FB friend, Christine Luchetta-Stilson, who runs the "Time and Space Gallery" in La Canada California will be featuring my work in the coming months.
http://thetimeandspacegallery.com/
I'm still pinching myself.
I spent most of yesterday shaking.
My work, at Goddard!!!
Does it get much better than this??
Without social networking sites such as Face Book, none of this would have been possible.
How else could a stay at home Mum like myself get to meet (virtually) such interesting people?
Bill, if you're reading this, thanks for giving me this opportunity.
