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>Subject: LIVE!ECLIPSE 97 - a Japan Internet initiative
>
>The following release is being sent by Japan Space Net on behalf of
>LIVE!ECLIPSE 97. Please direct all comments to press@solar-eclipse.org.
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
>
>January 21, 1997
>
>Japan's Major Computer/Telecoms Corporations, Planetariums and Amateur
>Astronomers
>to Jointly Conduct Multiple-location-based Live Broadcast via Internet of
>Mar. 9 Mongol/Siberia Total Eclipse
>-- Opening Up Fantastic World of Space Created by Internet to Children --
>
>LIVE!ECLIPSE 97 Executive Committee (Chairman: Masami Okyudo, Director of
>Misato Observatory), participated by Japan's major computer and
>telecommunications firms, observatories and planetariums, and amateur
>astronomer group, plans to conduct live broadcasting of March 9 (JST)
>Mongol/Siberia total solar eclipse from multiple locations via Internet.
> You can enjoy, on a single web page, all of the various views of the
>eclipse seen from Mongol, Siberia of Russia, as well as several locations in
>Japan. The live program will also be aired at major observatories and
>planetariums nationwide, allowing children to experience the fantastic world
>of space created by Internet.
>
>LIVE!ECLIPSE 97 Executive Committee has been formed by firms, organizations
>and individuals that support visions and objectives of the project to
>realize the project. Its current members include NEC, NTT Do Co Mo,
>Katsushika City Museum, Misato Observatory (Wakayama Prefecture), Science
>Museum Tokyo, Wakayama University, and Digital Magic Labs (Internet contents
>developer).
>
>The project, becoming the world's first multipoint live broadcast of total
>eclipse via Internet, aims to express the mysterious and fantastic
>attraction of space in an unprecedented way, utilizing the most advanced
>Internet technology.
>
>On Sunday, March 9, the LIVE!ECLIPSE 97 home page, scheduled to be
>grand-opened to public both in English and in Japanese in early February,
>will provide you with images of total eclipse observed from Darhan, Mongol
>and Shilka, Siberia, as well as those of partial eclipse viewed from several
>locations in Japan, including Sendai, Tokyo, Wakayama, Tanegashima Island,
>and Okinawa. The Shilka image will be provided in video. All these scenes
>will be live-transmitted, and enjoyed at the same time on a single web page.
> On the same web site, the LIVE!ECLIPSE 97 Executive Committee is also
>planning to introduce original, live video captures by "Eclipse Reporters,"
>recruited from general public.
>
>"This event is challenging to both the world of astronomy and that of
>Internet," states Masami Okyudo, the chairman of the LIVE!ECLIPSE 97
>Executive Committee. "Live broadcast via Internet so far have allowed you
>to experience the things occurring on the other side of the earth without
>actually visiting there. However, our multiple-location-based live
>broadcast program is something different. You can never enjoy what you see
>on the web page at anywhere else. On March 9, please access our home page,
>and witness how the eclipsed sun observed from one location of the world can
>be viewed from the other parts of the world at the same moment. We hope to
>convey to the children and others the wonders and fantasy of universe, that
>have never been able to be experienced before, with our LIVE!ECLIPSE 97
>program."
>
>The live broadcasting of video image will be realized through NVAT, the
>Internet-based video transmission system developed by NEC. The video image
>filmed at the observation locations will be converted to digital data by
>NVAT, transmitted to a center in Japan via INMARSAT satellite, and made
>ready for you to view on the web page through Internet providers. To view
>the NVAT video on the web site, you need NVAT plug-in software. The video
>image is also to be stored for use at science classrooms even after March
>9.
>
>The program will also be aired simultaneously at major observatories and
>planetariums nationwide, including Katsushika City Museum, Misato
>Observatory, and Science Museum Tokyo, on March 9.
>
># # #
>
>Note: the URL for the LIVE!ECLIPSE 97 home page, currently under
>construction, is http://www.solar-eclipse.org
>
>For further information, please contact:
>
>LIVE!ECLIPSE 97 Executive Committee
>PR Section Yuko Honobe
>E-mail: press@solar-eclipse.org
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