Once we arrived at Griffith Park Observatory, it was my time to get behind the wheel.

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Today, in contrast, the privately-funded, non-profit observatory has 22 full-time research astronomers, but does most of its local observing on four telescopes on Anderson mesa, a few miles east of town.

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Matt Penn and William Livingston of the National Solar Observatory predict that by the time Solar Cycle 25 arrives, magnetic fields on the sun will be so weak that few if any sunspots will be formed.

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Martin Ruhs, director of the Oxford Migration Observatory, suggests it may be time for Britain to let its more labour-intensive farming slide.

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We don't yet know how to get our data out of the observatory and presented to willing citizen scientists in real-time -- but if you are technically savvy, that's where you come in, that's where you can help us make the search better.

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However, with the 2.6-meter VLT and 268-megapixel OmegaCAM camera, the observatory is able to capture huge swaths of sky at a time -- no need for stitching here.

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