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Expanding Fisheye Webcam Network Now Capable of Monitoring Most of the Night Sky Robert J. Nemiroff (Michigan Tech), Hugo.E. Schwarz (CTIO), The CONCAM Collaboration, The TASCA Collaboration Abstract The growing global network of astronomical fisheye web cameras is now capable of monitoring most of the night sky all of the time. The increased coverage has been made possible by two new CONtinuous CAMeras (CONCAMs) deployed in Earths southern hemisphere, and the on-line capability of a similar southern hemisphere camera. The new CONCAM sites include the Siding Springs Observatory in Australia and the future site of the South Africa Large Telescope in Sutherland, South Africa. The Tololo All Sky Camera (TASCA) now provides four filter high resolution images, including light pollution bands from Cerro Tololo in Chile, completing global coverage. Potential scientific and educational uses for the growing network of cameras in the Night Sky Live network will be discussed. This work is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation Objectives Primary Science Unprecedented temporal monitoring for GRB OTs, meteors, variable stars, comets, novae, supernovae Support Science Unprecedented ability to act as instantaneous cloud monitors, archival cloud monitors, generate all-sky transparency maps, all-sky emissivity maps Education / Outreach Unprecedented ability to show your class last night’s (real) sky, archival skies, monitor meteor showers in real time, show educational sky movies, run educational modules Fisheye Night Sky Webcam Locations Sites of Future CONCAMs Future CONCAM-like devices are currently scheduled to go on-line in New Jersey, Utah, and Argentina. If you would like a CONCAM at your location, please e-mail me at nemiroff@ . The nominal deploy license fee for a CONCAM now runs at $20K. This includes all hardware and software (the real cost). Hardware CONCAMs are essentially fisheye lenses attached to CCDs run by a PC computer and connecte