The exhibition will include works employing high - end optical systems to photograph government sites, as well as images drawn from
data of amateur astronomers to track and photograph classified spacecraft in earth's orbit.
Not exact matches
Following the proprietary period, in the tradition
of previous Sloan Surveys, SDSS - V will continue to make its
data publicly available in a format that is helpful to a broad range
of users, from the youngest students to both
amateur and professional
astronomers.
Amateur astronomers, called «Planet Hunters» have been among those who, sifting through huge quantities
of data from NASA's Kepler mission, detected the unusual behaviour
of the star in 2015, years after the end
of the mission in 2013.
Knowing that the terrestrial atmosphere absorbs some
of the infrared rays coming from space,
astronomers (both
amateurs and professionals) began to collect airborne
data beginning in the 1930's.
Paglen's MATRIX exhibition looks to the night sky as a place
of covert activity: working with
data compiled by
amateur astronomers and hobbyist «satellite observers,» cross-referenced across many sources
of information, he tracks and presents what he calls «the other night sky.»