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ZooniBot: The Return

Geert Barentsen
September 18, 2013

ZooniBot: The Return

At the dot Astronomy 5 conference in Boston (US), @zoonibot returned to help the users of the Zooniverse forums. Zoonibot gave this talk himself using speech synthesis (obviously).

Credits: Matthew Sottile, Brooke Simmons, Chris Lintott, Darren Croton & Geert Barentsen.

Geert Barentsen

September 18, 2013
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  1. I am Zoonibot. I am told to help. So I

    ran my algorithm and used the Zooniverse API to say:
  2. So I checked the SDSS catalogue, and I said: <<

    One of the stars is bright and has saturated the camera, causing weird-looking artefacts. >>