VASCO transient datasets are now publicly available on the Project Lost Light websites. https://t.co/a8XFSCoZGt [Quoted] Project Lost Light invites professional scientists, citizen scientists, and students from around the world to participate in a challenge to replicate -- or challenge -- pre-Sputnik transient studies using historical (pre-Sputnik) photographic plate collections from around the world. First prize: $75,000 Second prize: $50,000 Third prize: $25,000 The competition accepts data...

[Retweeted] Project Lost Light invites professional scientists, citizen scientists, and students from around the world to participate in a challenge to replicate -- or challenge -- pre-Sputnik transient studies using historical (pre-Sputnik) photographic plate collections from around the world. First prize: $75,000 Second prize: $50,000 Third prize: $25,000 The competition accepts data from all pre-Sputnik photographic plate collections, except those from Palomar Observatory. Learn how to det...

[Retweeted] On April 12, 1950, a Palomar telescope photographed 9 points of light that weren't there 30 mins earlier - before satellites were in orbit. Today we launch Project Lost Light: $150,000 for independent tests of these flashes in other plate archives. https://t.co/HskQQWO4gv https://t.co/Se5zUQpoMB