November 6, 1998
Press Release
Milkyway Live Project Committee
Milkyway Live Project Committee (Office: Media i Corporation, Tokyo Japan) announced a Multimedia Live Project to show the Milkyway from Agawa village in Kochi via the Internet in cooperation with Mutoh Enterprise Ltd.(Representative: Seiji Nagashima, Tokyo Japan). The live broadcast will be from November 13 to December 13 and will feature the beautiful Milkyway around Orion and also the Leonid meteor shower which is expected to appear during this period. We hope many meteors will be captured by the camera. Milkyway Live Announcement
Media i Corporation (Representative: Tadashi Mori, Tokyo Japan) and Kochi Systems Co.,Ltd. (Representative: Toshiaki Yoshinaga, Kochi Japan) organized the Milkyway Live Project Committee in cooperation with the Education Committee of Agawa village, Kochi prefecture and Mutoh Enterprise Ltd. The Committee will set-up a cooled CCD camera in Agawa village, Kochi prefecture from Friday, November 13 to Sunday, December 13, to capture images of the Milkyway and show them via the Internet.
The images will be of interest not only for ordinary people but also for school kids and pupils as educational content. At this point the committee is cooperating with educational bodies to make the images more accessible.
Also during the live Leonid meteor shower, that is expected to appear around Tueseday, December 17, the maximum hourly number of meteors may be more than one thousand. So we hope many meteors will be captured by the CCD camera.
You can refer to the following URL to get information about this live project.
http://www.media-i.com/www/Milkyway/index.html
* Organization
* For information
- Executed by
- Milkyway Live Project Committee
- Media i Corporation
- Kochi Systems Co.,Ltd.
- Presented by
- Education Committee of Agawa village, Kochi prefecture
- Mutoh Enterprise Ltd.
- Supported by
- Kochi Prefecture
- Kochi Prefecture Education Committee
- The Nippon Meteor Society
- Cooperation with
- NTT
- Yamanashi Science Museum
- NIFTY SERVE
- NIFTY SERVE Space Forum(FSPACE)
* Project outline
- Milkyway Live Project Committee Office
- Media i Corporation
- 3-21-30 Motohongo-cho, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-0051 Japan
- TEL: +81-426-20-0378
- FAX: +81-426-20-0382
- (1)Period
- Friday, November 13, 1998 to Sunday, December 13, 1998
- (2)Object/Purpose
- Pupils at primary and junior high schools (browsing)
- High school students (image processing)
- Ordinary people (browsing)
- (3)Access(target)
- 15,000PV/day (average)
- 450,000PV/period
- (4)Strong points
- World's first project to make live coverage of starry sky.
- Images will be taken by professional equipment.
- Leonid meteor shower will be active during the broadcast.
* Contact address
Media i Corporation
Multimedia Business Department
3-21-20 Motohongo-cho, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-0051 Japan
TEL:+81-426-20-0378 FAX:+81-426-20-0382
http://www.media-i.com/index.html
Kochi Systems Co.,Ltd.
6-7 Saenba, Kochi-shi, Kochi prefecture, 780-0823 Japan
TEL:+81-888-84-9010 FAX:+81-888-84-3494
http://www.i-kochi.or.jp/index-e.html
Education Committee of Agawa village, Kochi prefecture
460-1 Osaki, Agawa-muwa, Agawa-gun, Kochi prefecture, 781-15 Japan
TEL:+81-889-35-0019 FAX:+81-889-35-0010
http://www.edu.net-kochi.gr.jp/home/agawa-v/index-e.html
Mutoh Enterprise Ltd.
Cooled CCD Camera Business Group
3-1-3 Ikejiri, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 153-8560 Japan
TEL:+81-3-5486-7516 FAX:+81-3-5486-7171
Nippon Telegram and Telephone Corporation
Multimedia Business Development Department
2-2-2 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0004 Japan
TEL:+81-3-5200-6966 FAX:+81-3-5200-9040
http://www.ntt.co.jp/
NIFTY Corporation
Public Relations Section
6-26-1 Minamioi, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 140-8544 Japan
TEL:+81-3-5471-3526 FAX:+81-3-5471-5393
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