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CyArk featured on KQED's Quest Program

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CyArk's work at Chichén Itzá Highlighted on TV Program

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By: Elizabeth Lee
October 13th, 2009

CyArk featured on KQED's Quest Program
Scan Data of the Famous Pyramid at Chichen Itza
CyArk featured on KQED's Quest Program
Tales of the Maya Skies opens November 12th at the Chabot Space and Science Center.
On October 13th at 7:30 pm PDT, the local San Francisco Bay Area station KQED will air a segment about CyArk's work at Chichén Itzá as part of the Maya Skies project. The story will air on KQED 9 & KQED HD on Comcast 709.

While the segment won't air until later tonight, you can watch it now online.

CyArk's work at Chichén Itzá was part of a larger effort on the Maya Skies Project. The Maya Skies Project is a project of the Oakland, California-based Chabot Space and Science Center in conjunction with Insight Digital and ARTSLab. The project was funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation. The finished product is a full-dome planetarium show about the Maya and their astronomy. This show will open at Chabot Space and Science Center on November 21, 2009.

CyArk completed the fieldwork for the project in November 2007, and the data for the project was launched on the CyArk website in 2008. To read more about the CyArk fieldwork at Chichén Itzá , see our article in Professional Surveyor Magazine.

To explore 3D data, photos, and in-depth textual information, visit Chichén Itzá in the CyArk projects section.

Watch the Maya Skies Segment on Quest

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November 4th, 2009 J. Q. Jacobs said:
I note factual errors. Observing zenith passage intervals indicates the duration of the tropical year, NOT solar orbit. Also, the Castillo pyramid is not cardinally aligned.

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