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* '''Daily Astronomy Tip'''. Create a Twitter account which automatically tweets a daily astronomy tip, similar to e.g. the [https://twitter.com/SciPyTip @SciPyTip] and [https://twitter.com/climagic @climagic] accounts. The tips could be about astronomy computing in particular, or about astronomical techniques in general. Multiple people can aid this hack by creating a list of useful 140-character-long tips. [Geert]
 
* '''Daily Astronomy Tip'''. Create a Twitter account which automatically tweets a daily astronomy tip, similar to e.g. the [https://twitter.com/SciPyTip @SciPyTip] and [https://twitter.com/climagic @climagic] accounts. The tips could be about astronomy computing in particular, or about astronomical techniques in general. Multiple people can aid this hack by creating a list of useful 140-character-long tips. [Geert]
 
* '''How far back?'''.  For a given astronomical distance provide a world event (scrape Wikipedia) that was occurring when the light we are now recieving set off. Useful for outreach e.g Cygnus X (MSF region) at 1.7kpc ~ 5500 light years so it set off in 3500BC when... "The Sahara desert starts to form from semi-arid savannah, through desertification." Clearly it'll be more fun the closer you get to home... [Adam]
 
* '''How far back?'''.  For a given astronomical distance provide a world event (scrape Wikipedia) that was occurring when the light we are now recieving set off. Useful for outreach e.g Cygnus X (MSF region) at 1.7kpc ~ 5500 light years so it set off in 3500BC when... "The Sahara desert starts to form from semi-arid savannah, through desertification." Clearly it'll be more fun the closer you get to home... [Adam]
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* '''Astronomy lit reviews'''. Create a place for astronomers to post their lit reviews. [Ruth]
  
 
== Interesting Data ==
 
== Interesting Data ==

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