The Vatican has an observatory in the United States?
I do not see an obvious shared archive or mention of any long term sky camera and lossless image sharing mentioned.
I worked at Georgetown University Center for Population Research and USAID for many years. GU was supposed to be founded by Jesuits, but I never met any. I grew up Catholic so your goals and interests are mostly understandable.
Just trying to find groups who might provide global open resources for sharing and learning on the Internet. There are 8.2 Billion humans now and about 5.4 Billion of them have some use and access to the Internet. The other 2.8 Billion, are increasingly dependent on ones using the Internet for global activities – good and bad.
Most of the “observatories” on the Internet are into “observers” and “telescope owners”, fund raising and promotions. Actual sharing of lossless data from cameras with lenses (a telescope is a kind of lens) is still emerging. Where there is money, then greed seems to always take over.
I started the Internet Foundation 27 years ago. So it splits my life in half – 27 years helping groups with systemic issues, and 27 years with global and systemic issues on the Internet.
There are about 2 Billion kids in the world from 4-24 that I call “first time learners” but 800 Million over 65 often ignored and decades of life and skills left. Most professions, jobs and gigs and interests now – require full time learning and increasingly expensive search.
If you want to train the world, and affect all people, then limiting to a few high schools in the US (I did not look deep at your activities, plans and reports) is not as impactful as helping the UN and all countries and all schools to see the sun, stars, models, technologies, data and purposes of “astronomy”, “gathering, archiving, sharing and improving use of knowledge”.
It is hard to summarize 6 decades in a few sentences. If you look at FEWS.net, perhaps it will give a glimmer of what I have tried to build toward sustainable human society that is fair, good not evil. Famine is not hard to deal with. Nor is space. But it takes commitment and belief that things will ultimately work out for the good of all.
Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
