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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Dale Flack [mailto:Dale.Flack@ttnq.org.au]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 09, 2012 11:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Noeleen Lowndes; Carolyn Ng; Elaine Lewis; Laura Peticolas; Ruth Paglierani; dscherrer@solar.stanford.edu<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Rush Pathak<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Webcast Update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Just want to send an email to give you all an update of where we are with the live web stream of the Eclipse 2012 in Cairns & The Great Barrier Reef, Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">We have secured 2 x telescopes from the Astronomical Association of Queensland which will be fitted to 2x panasonic Lumix cameras for the video output.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">One of the telescopes will be set up at Ellis Beach and the other at Palm Cove along side the hosted broadcast location where we will have special guests talking
about the eclipse, comments to the public etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">We will also have a camera on a boat on The Great Barrier Reef with a second host which we can cut to. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">The plan is to have a picture in picture of the partial eclipse the entire time while crossing to different locations and will have the few minters of totality
as a full screen image cutting between the two telescopes if necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">I am also in talk to have a camera in a helicopter to cut to and also one on the palmer River on the Atherton Tablelands where there is an eclipse festival with
8000 people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Elaine is checking on the option of having link to the ISS to get a few shots from the space station as it passes across northern Australia and if we're lucky
we may see the shadow of the moon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">The hosting position at Palm Cove will be utilising a hard wired internet connection that will be a solid link and the others will have wireless connectivity,
if these fail for any reason we will still have signal from the main telescope and hosting position.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">We have spoken to Ustream and are going to use them to host the live broadcast, they have agreed to promote the event and we are looking to have the channel up
and running with interviews, destination footage 2 weeks prior to the eclipse on November 14th Cairns time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">It would be great of you guys can start to promote the event and the destination and I will send some video and images to utilise. Once we have the "go live" dates
locked away we can start to promote the webcast.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">There will be a link on the official eclipse site
<a href="http://www.eclipse2012.org.au">www.eclipse2012.org.au</a> pointing to the live stream.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">I have contacted Debbie and she is helping me get clips and interviews from the visiting scientists and if you guys have any NASA merchandise you can send me to
get our followers and fangs excited about the partnership it'd be great, hats, stickers, de-commissioned space shuttles…..Anything would be great.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Thank you all for your help and support on this project thus far, we here at TTNQ are excited about working with you and looking forward to making this event a
world wide success.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Any questions please let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Talk soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#49A942">Dale Flack</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#49A942"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#49A942">Media Manager </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#49A942"><br>
Tourism Tropical North Queensland<br>
Phone: 0740151232<br>
51 The Esplanade, Cairns 4870</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#49A942">PO Box 865 Cairns Qld 4870</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:green">Tropical North Queensland’s tourism industry gathers this week for both business and pleasure. On Wednesday Tourism Tropical North Queensland holds its Annual General Meeting
followed by a networking function at the Cairns Hilton. The first Board meeting following the AGM will be held on Friday. On Saturday we celebrate the best in our industry with the Tropical North Queensland Tourism Awards at the Cairns Convention Centre. Find
out more at <a href="http://www.ttnq.org.au">www.ttnq.org.au</a>.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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