The Whole Earth Telescope
Iowa as the center of the world

Kawaler, Riddle

The Technique network of independent observatories around the world similar instrumentation obtain time-series brightness measurements of variable stars approach 24/7 coverage of stellar variations

The Headquarters: 24/7 staffed computer/communication lab data e-mailed to HQ for review/reduction WWW interaction page - true global collaboratory The Collaboration over 50 scientists from 14 countries funding from NSF, UNESCO, etc... 14 years and counting