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Galileo Project's first sky observatory starts continuous recording

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Galileo Project all-sky observatory on the roof of the Harvard College Observatory
The Galileo Project's first sky observatory on the roof of the Harvard College Observatory Abraham Loeb and Frank H. Laukien (Galileo Project), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Harvard's Galileo Project began continuous recording with an eight-camera infrared array at its first observatory in Massachusetts. Over five months it tracked about 500,000 objects; 144 trajectories stayed ambiguous, which the team said were likely mundane.

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  1. FirsthandCommissioning an All-Sky Infrared Camera Array for Detection of Airborne Objects (Domine et al., Sensors 25(3):783)MDPI Sensors / 2025-01-28
  2. FirsthandPublicationsThe Galileo Project, Harvard University

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