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ING Annual Report 1999
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Public Relations
Chapter 6
Various actions were taken as part of ING's outreach to the astronomical community and the general public. The first issue of the ING Newsletter was published, with the aim of improving our communication with the astronomical community. This Newsletter will appear twice per year, and will be made available primarily through the World Wide Web, and in hard copy to libraries in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Spain.
Furthermore, the [INGNEWS] e-mail exploder was started, which reaches hundreds of active ING users directly. The [INGNEWS] exploder has already proven invaluable for sending abroad urgent news from ING such as instrumentation announcements and notes on applying for observing time.
As during previous years, the public Open Days were organised on three days during the summer. A total of 3600 visitors were shown around during 111 guided tours to the ING telescopes. Also throughout the year many groups visited the WHT.
The 4th International Site Managers Meeting was this year hosted by the ING on La Palma. Issues of interest common to observatories were discussed, ranging from transport arrangements at observatories to operational models and plant maintenance as well as many other topics. Attendance included representatives from observatories around the world.
ING collaborated with IAC in the preparation of the exhibit "20 Años de Astronomía en La Palma" (20 years of astronomy on La Palma) in order to commemorate the international agreements signed in 1979 which brought the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory into existence.
These plots show some statistics of the visits to the ING telescopes in 1999. Between parenthesis the total number of visits. [ JPEG1 | TIFF1 | JPEG2 | TIFF2 | JPEG3 | TIFF3 ]
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